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Printing plate for the Saint-Aubin, Cochin portrait of Benjamin Franklin
Title
[Printing plate for the Saint-Aubin, Cochin portrait of Benjamin Franklin].
Production
[Paris] : [producer not identified], [1777]
Physical Description
1 printing plate : copper ; plate 20.8 x 15 cm
Local Notes
BEIN 2022 Folio 24: Forms part of the Benjamin Franklin Collection.
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Date and place of creation supplied by cataloger.
After drawing by Cochin.
"Dessiné par C.N. Cochin chevalier de 'lOrdre du roi, en 1777, et gravé par Aug. de St. Aubin, graveur de la Bibliotheque du roi"--Line above imprint.
Plate used to make the print in the state with five lines of letters: Benjamin Franklin: né à Boston, dans la Nouvelle Angleterre le 17 janvier 1706. (Paris: chés C.N. Cochin aux galleries du Louvre ; et chés Aug. de St. Aubin, rue des Mathurins, 1777).
Summary
Engraved copper plate for print: Benjamin Franklin: né à Boston, dans la Nouvelle Angleterre le 17 janvier 1706. C.N. Cochin filius delin. 1777. Aug. de St. Aubin, sculp. (state with five lines of letters.)
Image shows Benjamin Franklin in bust portrait, three-quarters to right, head toward center, eyes centered, wearing fur hat and spectacles. Within oval frame horizontally ruled to look like brickwork over a tablet with title letters, all on a rectangular, crosshatched background. "35e" on edge of plate in uppper left corner.
Variant and related titles
Benjamin Franklin: né à Boston, dans la Nouvelle Angleterre le 17 janvier 1706
Format
Other
Language
French
Added to Catalog
October 18, 2019
References
Fridenberg, R. Catalogue of the engraved portraits of Franklin, Cochin, 101
Sellers, C.C. Benjamin Franklin in portraiture, Cochin 1 (pages 227-230)
Subjects
Genre/Form
Portraits.
Copper plates (printing plates)
Printing plates.
Also listed under
Benjamin Franklin Collection (Yale University. Library)
France Paris.
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