Benyamin [sic] Franklin gebohren 1706 / D. Berger sculp., 1783. – Historic Print
![Benyamin [sic] Franklin gebohren 1706 / D. Berger sculp., 1783., 1783 — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/6d/6d3f7dec7684-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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A window into the past: Benyamin [sic] Franklin gebohren 1706 / D. Berger sculp., 1783., preserved in this antique engraving. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Benyamin [sic] Franklin gebohren 1706 / D. Berger sculp., 1783.
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The title of this 1783 portrait spells Benjamin Franklin's first name "Benyamin," a misspelling the catalog preserves with a [sic]. Engraved likenesses of Franklin circulated widely in the 1780s, when he was in France serving as American minister. That year he helped conclude the negotiations that ended the Revolutionary War, and European printmakers eagerly issued his image to a public curious about the American envoy. Made by etching and engraving, the print is listed in a checklist of Revolutionary-era graphics, which places it among the many images that shaped how people pictured the war's leaders.
| Created / published | 1783 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : etching and engraving. |
| Genre | Portrait prints 1780-1790.Intaglio prints 1780-1790. |
| Notes | Title from item. Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 71. |
| Subjects | Franklin, Benjamin,--1706-1790. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,093 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-122342 |
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