Lower right of left plate: 



"Ab Exemplar! , Jacobi de Ponte, quod Venetiis penes ID. Jojeph Smith extat, 

 exjcripjit qui dicabat.jj: Bajan Pf 



1743- 



33- 



Algernon Sidney, after Justus Verus [Le Bl. 20] 



Dimensions: 



135 X 8| inches with letters, 85 x 7I inches (oval portrait only). 

 Blocks, 4: 



Tan, light brown, light gray, dark gray. 

 Inscription, left and right under oval: 



" Zustus Verus, pinx: J: B: J: sculp; et exc:" 

 In rectangle at bottom: 



At the Time when M^ Algernon Sidney tvas Ambaffador 

 at that Court, Monjieur Terlon the French AmbaJJador, 

 had the Confidence to tear out of the Book of Mottos 

 in the King's Library, this Verje, tvhich M". Sidney 

 {according to the Liberty allowed to all Noble Strangers') 

 had tvritten in it: J 

 Manus haec inimica Tyrannis 

 Enfe petit placidam fub Libertate quietem. 

 Though Monjieur Terlon underjtood not a word of 

 Latin, he was told by others the meaning of that Sen- 

 tence, iL'hich he considered as a Libel upon the French 

 Government and upon Juch as tvas then Jetting up in 

 Denmark by French AJJistance or Example. 



Pref: to Acco^- of Denmark 4.-"' Edit:P:2}. 

 Another version with light red in place of light gray (Philadelphia, which 

 also has set of progressive proofs). 



Smithsonian Institution (U.S. National Museum) 



Worcester, MFA, Fogg, Baltimore, MMA, NYPL, Philadelphia 



BM, Berlin-Dahlem, Brussels, Frankfurt, Hamburg 



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