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[Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, standing before the Privy Council, 1766] – Antique Wall Art

[Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, standing before the Privy Council, 1766] — historic image
[Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, standing before the Privy Council, 1766]. 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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This rare historic image captures [Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, standing before the Privy Council, 1766] 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 appears here in the moment he stood before the Privy Council in London in 1766, when Parliament was weighing the repeal of the Stamp Act. Franklin, then the colonial agent for Pennsylvania and other colonies, was questioned by the councillors about American opposition to the tax, and his calm, pointed answers helped turn the debate. The record dates the image to about 1946, so it is a later depiction of a scene from the 1760s rather than a contemporary view, and it reflects how Americans came to remember Franklin as a figure of colonial diplomacy.

Medium1 item.
Notesc1946.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,115 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-126121

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