[Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, full-length portrait, seated, facing right] – Vintage Wall Art
![[Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, full-length portrait, seated, facing right], c1863. — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/4e/4ed0737522a4-L.webp)
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of [Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, full-length portrait, seated, facing right]. 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, full-length portrait, seated, facing right]
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Shown seated and turned to the right, Benjamin Franklin appears at full length in this engraving, published around 1863 by Johnson, Fry & Co. after a painting by Alonzo Chappel. Chappel, a mid-nineteenth-century American painter, produced many images of historical figures for popular histories and illustrated books, and the print reflects that era's appetite for dignified portraits of the Founders. Franklin, a printer, writer and diplomat who represented the American colonies in Paris during the Revolution, was a natural subject for such treatment.
| Created / published | c1863. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Subjects | Engraving copyrighted by Johnson, Fry & Co., after original painting by Chappel. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: PI--Works; PI; Shelf.; Chappel, Alonzo, 1828-1887. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 895 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-128790 |
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