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[Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, silhouette, full length, with cane, facing left] – Antique Wall Art

[Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, silhouette, full length, with cane, facing left] — historic image
[Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, silhouette, full length, with cane, facing left]. Historic image from the Presidents collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, silhouette, full length, with cane, facing left] comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, silhouette, full length, with cane, facing left]

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A cut-paper silhouette shows Benjamin Franklin standing full length with a cane, turned to the left, so the cane and the posture of the figure do most of the work. Silhouettes like this were made by hand, often with scissors, and were a fashionable, inexpensive likeness in the late 1700s, when Franklin's face was familiar on both sides of the Atlantic. He spent much of 1776 to 1785 in France as an American envoy, where his image was widely reproduced. The caption card gives no date, so the cane and the outline of the figure are the best clues to its place in his later years.

Medium1 item.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan987 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-134198

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