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[Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, full length, standing with others outside door of his printing shop, facing right] – Vintage Wall Art

[Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, full length, standing with others outside door of his printing shop, facing right] — historic print
[Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, full length, standing with others outside door of his printing shop, facing right]. Historic print 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 historic print of [Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, full length, standing with others outside door of his printing shop, facing right] brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, full length, standing with others outside door of his printing shop, facing right]

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Franklin is shown full length, standing with others at the door of a printing shop, as the painter imagined the scene. The image is a 1910 reproduction of a painting by Jean Léon Gérôme Ferris (1863-1930), an American artist known for historical scenes of colonial and early national America. Franklin ran his printing business in Philadelphia, where he printed newspapers, books, and the popular *Poor Richard's Almanack*, so the setting ties the portrait to the trade that helped build his public reputation. The catalog notes on this record are old and unverified, so the details of the scene are best read as the painter's interpretation.

Medium1 print.
Notesc1910 June 14.
SubjectsRepro. of painting by Jean Léon Gérôme Ferris. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: PI; PI--Works; Shelf. Sources checked; Websters. Ferris, Jean Léon Gérôme, 1863-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,201 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-130442

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