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