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Frankelin, Ministre Plenipotentiare des Etats Unis de l'Amerique Septentrionale (Benjamin Franklin)

1785
Not on view

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Frankelin, Ministre Plenipotentiare des Etats Unis de l'Amerique Septentrionale (Benjamin Franklin)
  • Engraver: Justus Chevillet (German, Frankfurt am Oder 1729–before 1790 Paris)
  • Artist: After Michel Honoré Bounieu (French, 1740–1815 Paris)
  • Artist: After Jean Antoine Houdon (French, Versailles 1741–1828 Paris)
  • Sitter: Benjamin Franklin (American, Boston 1706–1790 Philadelphia)
  • Date: 1785
  • Medium: Etching and engraving
  • Dimensions: Plate: 14 3/4 × 11 in. (37.4 × 27.9 cm)
    Sheet: 17 15/16 × 13 3/16 in. (45.6 × 33.5 cm)
  • Classifications: Prints, Albums
  • Credit Line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883
  • Object Number: 83.2.226
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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