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[Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, bust portrait, right profile] – Historic Photograph Print

[Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, bust portrait, right profile] — antique engraving
[Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, bust portrait, right profile]. 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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Step back in time with [Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, bust portrait, right profile], an antique engraving rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Franklin is shown here in right profile, a bust-length view that follows the format engravers used for many of his likenesses after his death. The print is dated 1794, four years after he died in Philadelphia in 1790, so it was made when his reputation as a printer, scientist and diplomat was still fresh and demand for his image was high. Engravings like this circulated widely in books, almanacs and broadsides, which helped fix a standard version of his face in the public mind. The profile pose, with its clean outline, was especially suited to the small, sharply cut plates that were common in that period.

Medium1 print : engraving.
Notes[1794].
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan971 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-124471

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