Ben Franklin Broadside: Bowles Moral Pictures
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Late 18th C. engraved broadside headed: "Bowles's Moral Pictures, or Poor Richard Illustrated. Being Lessons for the Young and the Old, on Industry, Temperance, Frugality by the Late Dr. Benj. Franklin." and below title: "Printed for & Sold by Bowles and Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London." Undated, but printed in the late 1790s, after the death of Benjamin Franklin in 1790. Twenty-five oval vignettes illustrating maxims from Poor Richard's Almanac such as: "For want of a nail the shoe was lost, for want of a shoe the horse was lost" and "Three removes are as bad as a fire, and a rolling stone gathers no moss". The center top vignette shows Benjamin Franklin in profile within a laurel wreath, with his birth and death places and dates. Frame, approx. 34" x 29 1/2". Sight, approx. 23 1/4" x 18 1/2"
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Ben Franklin Broadside: Bowles Moral Pictures
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