548 On 
Legend. 
LIBERTAS AMERICANA. 
Exergue. 
| 
4 JUIL. 1776. . 
The reverfe exhibits (monarchical) France, 
attired like Minerva, prefenting her 
Shield, with the Gallic Lilhes in the. 
Field, to an affrighted Leopard, under 
which Emblem Britain is !nfultingly 
typified, while, with the Right Hand, 
fhe is prepared to bury her Spear in his 
* Side. 
Below this vaunting Figure is a young 
Hercules, firangling the Serpents that 
had aflaulted his Infancy.. This allu- 
fion refpeéting America muftbe allowed 
to be appropriate. 
Legend. 
Non SrinE Diss AnimMasus INFANS. 
Exergue. 
9. 1731. 
Much about the fame time the French 
fehool of engraving was occupied in ce- 
lebrating the worthies of the American 
Revolution, &c. two of its beit artuits were 
aétually bufied, by command of the court, 
in tracing for pofterity the features of 2 
Virginian Planter, and a Printer of Phila- 
delphia ; Wafhington the fupporter, and 
Franklin the founder, of American In- 
dependency ! 
From admiring the heroes of freedom 
in another country, and imitating them in 
our awn, the fiep is inconfiderable. At 
length, in 1739, hberty was proclaimed 
in France, by the Srates- General, with 
the alfidance of the people ef Paris, who 
nobly feconced the endeavours of the re- 
_ prefentative body, and fealed rheir patri- 
otifm on the ruins of the Bafttile. 
# convulfion that fucceeded up- 
rooted the monarchy from its founda- 
tions, acd has impofed a new face on the 
affairs of Europe. hac 
“The arts have been called in to eter- 
nize the mot celebrared epochs of Gallic 
freedom, and will find full employment 
for a century to come, ip recording the 
vidtorics’ of an infant commonwealth, 
which, in its very cradle, has {mote the 
adult and decrepit dcfpotifms on the con~ 
tinent with a deadiy vengeance. 
Here follows a defeription of a few of 
the medals which have been ftruck fub- 
fequent to the Revolution. 
No. 3... Obverfe. 
A Portrait of the Citizen of Geneva, Author 
of the Social Contract. 
ire 
Medals. 
' Legend. 
J., Jacaves Roysseau, né a GENEVE en 
' 1712. 
ss oe Reverfe. 
Two Circles, The inner one contains the 
~ lowing Infcription : 
_ LA PuIssaNcE 
LEGISLATIVE, 
APPARTIENT AU PEUPLE 
ET NE PEUF APPARTENIR 
Qua Lut. 
The outer Circle contains the Book and 
Chapter of the Sozial Contraét, whence 
the text has been borrowed, viz. 
ConTRAT SOCIAL 
RGrVig 3e if 
Chap, I. 
Tne Artift is 
M. DuMaREsT. ; 
This medal was ftrack at Birmingham, 
by the newly invented balance-prefs of the 
ingenious 
fol- 
Mr. Botton. 
_No. 2. Obwerfe. 
A half-length figure of a gallant Officer, who, 
after participating in two. Kevolutions, lan- 
guifhed until lately in one of the dungegns of 
Morayia. 
Legend. 
LAFAYETTE Deputé 
A wWAss. NAT. 
ConSTITUANTE. 
Né en 1757. 
Reverfe. 
Two Branches of Laurels, tied at the ends and 
meeting atthe top, after infcribing a Circle.” 
Within this civick Wreath is the following 
Infcription. 
Ir a CoMMANDE 
La. Garpe NaTIoNaLE 
PARISIENNE EN 1739 
1790 et 7gTE Me og 
The Artift is the fame as the former. 
No. 3.° Obwerfe. — 
The National Parifian Guard, and the Depu- 
tations fro n all the armed Citizens of France, 
{wearing Fidelity before the Altar of Liberty. 
Legend. 
Vivre Lipres 
ou 
Mourir. = 
Above the Banners are the words 
Pactre FEDERATIF. 
Below, in the : 
Exergue. . 
14 ..JUELLET. 
1790. 
Reverfe. 
REvoLUTION FRANGAISE, 
1792: 
The Artift is 
M. Dupre. 
No. 4.  Obverfe. 2. 
Louis XVI, dreffed in his Coronation Robes, 
{wearing to obferve the Confiitution. Before 
; him 
[Sue. 
