Benjamin Franklin – Antique Wall Art
![Benjamin Franklin, [1962] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/d3/d3f7bf1b318b-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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Benjamin Franklin comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Benjamin Franklin
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This is a 1962 color photograph of an oil portrait of Benjamin Franklin, painted in 1767, when he was living in London as a colonial agent for Pennsylvania and other colonies. He spent much of the 1760s there lobbying Parliament and the Crown, including during the furor over the Stamp Act. The painting shows him as a sober, well-dressed statesman in his early sixties, far from the folksy printer of popular legend. Because the record describes a photograph of a painting, the image preserves the artwork as a 1960s reproduction, which is a useful reminder that many of the most familiar images of Franklin come from paintings made during his long years abroad.
| Created / published | [1962] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photograph print : color. |
| Genre | Portrait paintings 1760-1770 Reproductions 1960-1970.Photographic prints Color 1960-1970.Oil paintings 1760-1770 Reproductions 1960-1970. |
| Notes | Photograph of portrait painting, painted 1767. |
| Subjects | Franklin, Benjamin,--1706-1790. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,098 × 5,107 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217562 |
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