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[Sheet of engraved images of american subjects for use on bank notes] : for M. Alexandre Vattemare's American album
Title
[Sheet of engraved images of american subjects for use on bank notes] : for M. Alexandre Vattemare's American album.
Publication
Philadelphia : Underwood, Bald, Spencer, & Hufty ; New York : Danforth, Underwood & Co., [between 1840 and 1850]
Physical Description
1 print : engraving ; 31.7 x 39 cm
Medium
paper
ink
engraving
Local Notes
BEIN BrSides Folio 2019 263: On India paper sheet 37.0 x 41.5 cm, mounted on sheet 43.4 x 58.4 cm. On recto, lower right, manuscript note in pencil: imprimé par G. Dien. Forms part of the Benjamin Franklin Collection.
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Summary
Sheet, blank in center with ring of twenty-two portraits and vignettes related to America; includes an oval portrait of Benjamin Franklin (2.7 x 2.4 cm) in upper right; bust to right of Franklin with thumb on his chin; after the portrait by David Martin.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 08, 2022
References
Fridenberg, R. Catalogue of the engraved portraits of Franklin, 508
Subjects
Genre/Form
Chine collé prints.
Engravings.
Portraits.
Also listed under
Underwood, Bald, Spencer, & Hufty, publisher.
Danforth, Underwood & Co., publisher.
Benjamin Franklin Collection (Yale University. Library)
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
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