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Engraver Jean Charles Le Vasseur French
After Antoine Borel French
Subject Benjamin Franklin American
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Title: L'Amérique Indépendante (Independent America)
Engraver:
Jean Charles Le Vasseur (French, Abbeville 1734–1816 Paris)
Artist:
After Antoine Borel (French, Paris 1743–after 1810)
Subject:
Benjamin Franklin (American, Boston 1706–1790 Philadelphia)
Date: 1778
Medium: Etching and engraving
Dimensions:
Plate: 19 3/4 × 14 7/8 in. (50.2 × 37.8 cm)
Sheet: 21 9/16 × 17 1/8 in. (54.8 × 43.5 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883
Object Number: 83.2.997
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