Benjamin Franklin – Antique Wall Art
![Benjamin Franklin, c[between 1900 and 1920] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e7/e7c8a0a6c34b-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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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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Franklin is shown seated beside a globe and a stack of books, a pairing that signals the learned, worldly figure he cultivated across Europe and America. Engraved portraits like this one circulated widely in the late eighteenth century, when Franklin was known as a printer, scientist and diplomat as well as a statesman. The globe points to his far-ranging interests and his years abroad, while the books stand for the reading and writing that fed his reputation. Worth noticing is how the engraver used these props to present Franklin as a thinker first and a politician second.
| Created / published | c[between 1900 and 1920] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Portrait paintings Reproductions.Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Photograph of painting at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Detroit Publishing Co. no. M311. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | Franklin, Benjamin,--1706-1790. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 6,679 × 8,704 px · prints to 22 × 29 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 03233u benjamin franklin |
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