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ERIPUIT CŒLO FULMEN SCEPTRUM QUE TYRANNIS. (He drew fire from heaven and wrenched the sceptre from tyrants.) A genius pointing with his right hand to a lightning-rod attracting the electric spark, and with his left to a broken crown and sceptre at his feet. Exergue: SCULPSIT ET DICAVIT AUG. DUPRÉ ANNO MDCCLXXXIV. (Sculpsit et dicavit Augustinus Dupré, anno 1784: Engraved and dedicated by Augustin Dupré, in the year 1784).[56],[57]