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[Benjamin Franklin, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right, wearing fur collar] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Benjamin Franklin, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right, wearing fur collar], c1907. — historic photograph
[Benjamin Franklin, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right, wearing fur collar], c1907.. Historic photograph 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 photograph reproduces a painting by Joseph-Siffrède Duplessis, the French court portraitist, showing Benjamin Franklin in a fur-collared coat, turned slightly to the right. Franklin sat for portraits like this during his years in Paris, when he served as American envoy and sought French support for the Revolution, and the fur collar and plain dress became part of his familiar image. The print dates to about 1907, when reproductions of well-known portraits were widely made and registered for copyright, and it shows how Franklin's likeness was circulated long after the original was painted.

Created / publishedc1907.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait paintings Reproductions 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesH93461 U.S. Copyright Office. Photograph of painting by Joseph-Siffrède Duplessis. No. 9011[...].
SubjectsFranklin, Benjamin,--1706-1790.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,298 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-109236

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