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[Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, bust portrait, facing slightly right] – Vintage 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 antique engraving of [Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, bust portrait, facing slightly right] brings a moment of history to your wall. 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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Shown in bust length and turned slightly to the right, Franklin appears here as an engraving made around 1835, the approximate date given in the record. The print was cut by R.W. Dodson after a painting by James Barton Longacre, so the image passes through two hands: Longacre's paint and Dodson's line. Franklin had died in 1790, and by the 1830s his likeness was widely reproduced as a symbol of the printer, scientist and diplomat who helped found the nation. Viewers may want to compare the engraver's fine hatching with the softer tones a painter would use.

Medium1 print : engraving.
Notesc1835.
SubjectsEngraving by R.W. Dodson, from a painting by James Barton Longacre. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: PI--Works; PI; Shelf. Sources checked and other information on verso of card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan906 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-130444

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