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[FLAGS & TEXTILES]. "Apotheosis of Franklin" textile, including Benjamin Franklin and George Washington. English, ca late 18th century.
Sale 2057 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography
Oct 25, 2024 10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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$500 - 700
Price Realized
$635
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Lot Description
[FLAGS & TEXTILES]. "Apotheosis of Franklin" textile, including Benjamin Franklin and George Washington. English, ca late 18th century.

Red and white cotton textile fashioned as a curtain with hooks still attached at top, approx. 53 x 32 in. Reverse side lined with cotton.

The textile features two richly symbolic vignettes, including George Washington and Liberty in a leopard-drawn chariot behind two Native Americans and near the Liberty Tree, and Benjamin Franklin and Liberty holding a banner reading "WHERE LIBERTY DWELLS THERE IS MY COUNTRY" near the Temple of Fame, and two cherubs holding a map of the eastern United States. Number 8 in Collins, Threads of History.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
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