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Pencil drawing of Benjamin Franklin after the portrait by Steven Elmer
Title
[Pencil drawing of Benjamin Franklin after the portrait by Steven Elmer]
Production
[Place of production not identified] : [Producer not identified] ; [between 1900 and 1930?]
Physical Description
1 drawing : pencil ; 25.7 x 21.7 cm
Medium
paper
ink
drawing (image-making)
Local Notes
BEIN BrSides 2019 676: On sheet 32.6 x 28.4 cm. Forms part of the Benjamin Franklin Collection.
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
After the painting by Steven Elmer.
See Fridenberg, R. Catalogue of the engraved portraits of Franklin, Elmer, 291f
See Sellers, C. C. Benjamin Franklin in portraiture, Elmer, pages 277-281
Summary
Pencil drawing shows Benjamin Franklin in half-length portrait, seated at table reading. Three-quarters to right, head to right--almost in profile; wearing pince-nez and looking down at the London Evening Post dated Jan. 1, 1776 in his right hand; resting his left hand on Richard Price's Observations on the nature of civil liberty.
Variant and related titles
Benjamin Franklin
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 27, 2022
Subjects
Genre/Form
Portraits.
Drawing (image-making)
Also listed under
Benjamin Franklin Collection (Yale University. Library)
England London.
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