Charles-Gabriel Sauvage, called Lemire pere

Figure of Louis XVI and Benjamin Franklin

1780–85

Porcelain

12 3/4 x 9 1/2 x 6 in. (32.4 x 24.1 x 15.2 cm)

Benjamin Franklin

Magna Britannia: Her Colonies Reduced

1833 [based on 1766 print]

Etching and engraving

Plate: 2 15/16 × 4 1/2 in. (7.5 × 11.5 cm) Sheet: 5 1/8 × 8 1/2 in. (13 × 21.6 cm)

James Peale

George Washington

ca. 1782

Oil on canvas

36 x 27 in. (91.4 x 68.6 cm)

Augustin Dupré

American Liberty (Libertas Americana)

1782

Bronze, struck

Diameter: 48 mm

Augustin Dupré

American Liberty

1782

Bronze, copper-brown patina

Diameter: 48 mm

Josiah Wedgwood

Antislavery Medallion

ca. 1787

Jasperware

Overall (confirmed): 1 3/16 × 1 1/16 in. (3 × 2.7 cm); Overall (as mounted, confirmed): 2 3/8 × 1 3/16 in. (6 × 3 cm)

Paul Revere Jr.

The Boston Massacre, or, The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street, Boston on March 5, 1770 by a party of the 29th Regiment

1770

Hand-colored engraving and etching; second state

Image: 10 1/4 × 9 1/8 in. (26 × 23.2 cm) Sheet: 11 in. × 9 9/16 in. (27.9 × 24.3 cm)

John Trumbull

Thomas Jefferson

1788

Oil on mahogany

4 1/2 x 3 1/4 in. (11.4 x 8.3 cm)

Philip Dawe

The Alternative of Williams-Burg

February 16, 1775

Mezzotint

Plate: 14 × 10 in. (35.5 × 25.4 cm) Sheet: 17 1/2 × 11 5/16 in. (44.5 × 28.7 cm)

Philip Dawe

The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man, or Tarring & Feathering

October 31, 1774

Mezzotint and etching

Sheet: 14 in. × 10 1/8 in. (35.6 × 25.7 cm) Plate: 15 9/16 × 10 15/16 in. (39.5 × 27.8 cm)

Philip Dawe

A Society of Patriotic Ladies, at Edenton in North Carolina

March 25, 1775

Mezzotint

Plate: 13 7/8 × 9 15/16 in. (35.3 × 25.3 cm) Sheet: 17 3/16 × 11 3/8 in. (43.7 × 28.9 cm)

Bernard Romans

An Exact View of the Late Battle at Charlestown, June 17th, 1775

ca. 1775

Hand-colored engraving

Sheet: 11 7/8 × 16 5/8 in. (30.1 × 42.2 cm)

Alexander Lawson

General Washington's Resignation

1799

Engraving and etching; second state

Image: 6 in. × 3 3/4 in. (15.3 × 9.5 cm) Sheet: 8 1/16 × 4 7/8 in. (20.5 × 12.4 cm)

Edward Savage

George Washington

1801

Mezzotint, before letters

Plate: 27 3/4 × 20 3/8 in. (70.5 × 51.8 cm) Sheet: 29 15/16 × 22 1/16 in. (76 × 56 cm)

Paul Revere Jr.

Philip King of Mount Hope

1772

Engraving

Sheet: 6 3/4 × 4 1/8 in. (17.2 × 10.5 cm)

Anonymous, British, 18th century

Two shillings and six pence revenue stamp

1765–66

Embossed stamp on blue-gray paper with metal staple on vellum (recto); engraved cypher (verso)

Blue paper sheet: 1 5/8 × 1 5/8 in. (4.2 × 4.2 cm) Vellum sheet: 2 × 1 13/16 in. (5.1 × 4.6 cm) Cypher on verso: 7/8 × 13/16 in. (2.2 × 2 cm)

Apotheosis of Franklin

ca. 1790

Cotton and linen

L. 85 1/2 x w. 31 inches (as now mounted) (217.2 x 78.7 cm) Framed: H. 75 1/2 x W. 31 inches (191.8 x 78.7 cm)

British (American market)

Teapot

1766–75

Earthenware

H. 5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm)

Joseph Etienne Blerzy

Snuffbox with portrait of Louis XVI (1754–1793), King of France

1779–80

Gold, enamel, diamonds; ivory, glass

1 3/8 x 3 1/4 x 2 1/2 in. (3.5 x 8.3 x 6.4cm); Miniature: oval, 1 1/4 x 1 in. (32 x 25 mm)

Joseph Siffred Duplessis

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

1778

Oil on canvas

Oval, 28 1/2 x 22 7/8 in. (72.4 x 58.1 cm)

Scipio Moorhead

Phillis Wheatley

1773

Engraving

Oval sheet (trimmed): 5 in. × 3 7/8 in. (12.7 × 9.8 cm)

John Raphael Smith

Joseph Tayadaneega, called the Brant, the Great Captain of the Six Nations

February 10, 1779

Mezzotint; first state of two

Sheet (trimmed to plate): 20 in. × 14 1/8 in. (50.8 × 35.8 cm)

Anonymous, American, 19th century

Mad Tom in a Rage

[1801]

Etching

Plate: 11 1/8 × 7 7/8 in. (28.3 × 20 cm) Sheet: 13 1/2 × 9 3/8 in. (34.3 × 23.8 cm)

Anonymous, French, 18th century

Réprésentation du feu terrible à nouvelle Yorck, que les Américains allumé pendant la nuit du 19. septembre 1776 (Representation of the terrible fire at New York, that the Americans lit during the night of September 19, 1776)

ca. 1778

Hand-colored etching and engraving

Image: 9 1/8 × 15 1/16 in. (23.2 × 38.2 cm) Sheet: 11 × 16 in. (27.9 × 40.6 cm)

Anonymous, French, 18th century

The Destruction of the Royal Statue at New York on July 9, 1776

ca. 1776

Hand-colored etching and engraving

Image: 9 in. × 15 3/16 in. (22.8 × 38.5 cm) Plate: 10 13/16 × 15 13/16 in. (27.5 × 40.2 cm) Sheet: 12 in. × 17 11/16 in. (30.5 × 44.9 cm)

John Dixon

The Oracle

1774

Mezzotint

Sheet (trimmed to image): 20 1/16 × 23 7/16 in. (51 × 59.5 cm)

James Sharples

John Adams

ca.1796

Pastel on gray (now oxidized) laid paper

9 1/2 x 7 7/16 in. (24.1 x 18.9 cm)

James Sharples

Abigail Smith Adams

ca.1796

Pastel on gray (now oxidized) laid paper

9 9/16 x 7 7/16 in. (24.3 x 18.9 cm)

Richard Yeo

Proof guinea of George III

1761

Gold

Diameter: 1 in. (25 mm)

John Bush

Powder Horn of John Mahard

Dated 1756

Cowhorn, wood, iron

L. 12 3/8 in. (31.5 cm); greatest Diam. 2 3/4 in. (6.8 cm); Wt. 7 5/8 oz. (216 g)