MENTOR GRAVURES
FRANKLIN BEFORE THE LORDS OF WHITEHALL, LONDON, 1775
DRAFTING THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
FRANKLIN AT THE COURT OF FRANCE, 1778
FRANKLIN
From an engraving after a painting by Duplessis
TRANSLATION OF THE INSCRIPTION—“Honor of the New World and Humanity, this true and amiable sage guides and enlightens them; like another Mentor, he hides in the common eye a divinity, beneath the features of a mortal.”—M. Feutry.