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.