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Portrait of Benjamin Franklin engraved by Carlo Raimondi
Title
[Portrait of Benjamin Franklin engraved by Carlo Raimondi]
Edition
[State without letters]
Publication
[Milan] : [Pietro Barelli], [1850]
Physical Description
1 print : engraving ; 11.8 x 7.2 cm
Local Notes
BEIN BrSides Box 2019 830: On India paper sheet 14.3 x 9.3 cm, inlaid in sheet 17.7 x 12.0 cm, inlaid in sheet 26.8 x 18.0 cm. On verso, stamped: E.B.H. Forms part of the Benjamin Franklin Collection.
Notes
Title from state with full letters.
Production date from Sellers, C.C. Benjamin Franklin in Portraiture (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962). Sellers provides an alternate attribution for the original enamel portrait to Weyler, Jean Baptiste.
Summary
Engraved portrait of Benjamin Franklin; after the Thouron enamel portrait; bust to front, head to right; long, natural hair; white neck cloth, broad coat lapels; oval with keystone, on monumental tablet, over horizontally ruled panel with title, wreathed in garland of roses; books in lower right.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 02, 2021
References
Fridenberg, R. Catalogue of the engraved portraits of Franklin, Thouron, 557a
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Genre/Form
Engravings.
Portraits.
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