Benjamin Franklin – Historic Print
(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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Step back in time with Benjamin Franklin, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Benjamin Franklin
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This print reproduces a painting that its record describes as the last portrait made of Benjamin Franklin during his lifetime, completed in 1787, when he was in his early eighties. That year he was also taking part in the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, and he died in 1790. The painting's original is held by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. The photographic copy was made around 1913 by the Detroit Publishing Co., a firm known for reproducing images of American places and art, so the print shows how a late-eighteenth-century likeness was circulated to a wide audience in the early twentieth century.
| Created / published | c1913. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : gelatin silver. |
| Genre | Portraits 1780-1790.Art reproductions 1910-1920.Gelatin silver prints 1910-1920. |
| Notes | J188196 U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction of last portrait made during Franklin's lifetime, painted in 1787. No. M 311. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Copyright by Detroit Publishing Co. |
| Subjects | Franklin, Benjamin,--1706-1790. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,298 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-177997 |
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