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[Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, bust portrait, facing slightly right] – Antique Photo Print

[Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, bust portrait, facing slightly right] — antique engraving
[Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, bust portrait, facing slightly right]. Antique engraving 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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This rare antique engraving captures [Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, bust portrait, facing slightly right] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, bust portrait, facing slightly right]

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Franklin appears here as a bust portrait turned slightly to the right, the kind of head-and-shoulders likeness engravers produced in large numbers once his fame spread across the Atlantic. Printmakers in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries reused such images for books, almanacs and frontispieces, so one face could circulate for decades. The caption card records no date, so the exact year of this engraving is unknown, but the subject's life (1706 to 1790) frames it: Franklin was a printer, scientist and diplomat whose image became a symbol of American public life.

Medium1 print : engraving.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,056 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-130443

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