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Benjamin Franklin - né à Boston dans la Nouvelle Angleterre, le 17 Janvier 1706 / Desrayes del ; le Beau scul. – Historic Reproduction

Benjamin Franklin - né à Boston dans la Nouvelle Angleterre, le 17 Janvier 1706 / Desrayes del ; le Beau scul., Paris : Chés Esnauts et Rapilly, rue St. Jacques à la Ville de Coutances, A.P.D.R., [178-] — antique engraving
Benjamin Franklin - né à Boston dans la Nouvelle Angleterre, le 17 Janvier 1706 / Desrayes del ; le Beau scul., Paris : Chés Esnauts et Rapilly, rue St. Jacques à la Ville de Coutances, A.P.D.R., [178-]. 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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Benjamin Franklin - né à Boston dans la Nouvelle Angleterre, le 17 Janvier 1706 / Desrayes del ; le Beau scul. comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Its French title places Benjamin Franklin's birth in Boston, New England, on January 17, 1706, and the engraving was drawn by Desrayes and cut by Le Beau. It was published in Paris by Esnauts and Rapilly on the rue Saint-Jacques, a shop that sold prints to the city's buyers. Franklin spent much of 1776 to 1785 in France as an American envoy, and his face became one of the most widely reproduced in the country. Portraits like this one circulated because he was celebrated there as a scientist, writer and diplomat, not only as a political figure.

Created / publishedParis : Chés Esnauts et Rapilly, rue St. Jacques à la Ville de Coutances, A.P.D.R., [178-]
Medium1 print : engraving.
GenrePortrait prints 1780-1790.Engravings 1780-1790.
SubjectsFranklin, Benjamin,--1706-1790.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,035 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-116348

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