His Excellency Benjamin Franklin

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Date1787

After Charles Willson Peale (American, 1741 - 1827)

Engraver Charles Willson Peale (American, 1741 - 1827)

Subject Benjamin Franklin (American, 1706 - 1790)

Geography Made - United States

Medium/TechniqueInk on paper; mezzotint

DimensionsOverall: 7 1/4 in. × 6 1/16 in. (18.42 cm × 15.4 cm) Image: 5 1/8 in. × 4 1/4 in. (13.02 cm × 10.8 cm)

Credit LinePurchase, 1989

Object numberM-2086/C

DescriptionThis print is an oval portrait image of Benjamin Franklin.
Published ReferencesMade in America: Printmaking, 1760-1860: An Exhibition of Original Prints from the Collections of the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania,(April-June, 1973): 9-10. (general reference)

E. P. Richardson, "Charles WIllson Peale's Engravings in the Year of National Crisis, 1787", Wintherthur Portfolio. Vol. I, (1964): 170. (general reference)

James Biddle, American Art from American Collections: Decorative Arts, Paintings, and Prints of the Colonial and Federal Periods, from Private Collections, (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1963), 100. (general reference)

Charles Coleman Sellers, "The Peale Portraits of Benjamin Franklin", Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 94, no. 3, Studies of Historical Documents in the Library of the American Philosophical Society (June, 1950): 251-257. (general reference)

David McNeeley Stauffer, American Engravers upon Copper and Steel Vol. II, (New York: The Grolier Club,1907), 400.(general reference)

Catalogue of an Exhibition Commemorating the Two Hundreth Anniversary of the Birth of Benjamin Franklin at the Grolier Club of the City of New York. (New York: The Grolier Club, 1906), 55.(general reference)

Frank Weitenkampf, "List of Works Relating to Benjamin Franklin: Portraits", Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 10, No. 1, (January, 1906): 74.(general reference)

MarkingsPrinted in ink below and around the image: "C.W. Peale pinxt.et Fecit 1787 / His Excellency B. Franklin L.L.D. F.R.S. President of the State of Pennsylvania, & Late Minister of the United States of America at the Court of France."

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