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Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790 – Vintage Print

Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, 1787 — antique lithograph
Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, 1787. Antique lithograph 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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790. 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

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Franklin's likeness here comes from a 1787 painting by Charles Willson Peale, made when the 81-year-old statesman was in Philadelphia, where the Constitutional Convention was meeting that year. The caption card gives 1787 as the date, but lithography was not invented until 1796, so this printed version was almost certainly made years after the painting and reproduces its image. Franklin died in 1790, and Peale's portrait remains one of the most widely copied images of him.

Created / published1787
Medium1 print : lithograph.
NotesLithograph after painting by Charles Wilson Peale, 1787. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Publ. Ind.; B.I.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,008 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-144226

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