Benjamin Franklin.

Artist
Cochin, Charles Nicolas, 1715-1790 [Browse]
Format
Visual material
Language
French
Published/​Created
Paris : [publisher not identified], 1777.
Description
1 sheet ; 31 x 23.5 cm

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    Notes
    • Mezzotint. "Dessin par C. N. Cochin, Chevalier de l'Ordre du Roi, en 1777. John Martin Will excudit Aug. Vind."
    • "Fur-cap portrait" of Franklin. Half length portrait, standing, directed and facing right, looking front; right arm extended; paper in left hand; spectacles, fur cap, fur trimmed coat; writing implements on table; drapery in background to right.
    • Princeton copy 1 Forms part of: The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution.
    • Princeton copy 1 Text trimmed from Lapidus copy: N Boston, dans la nouvelle Angleterre le 17. Janvier 1706.
    Source acquisition
    Ex copy: Gift, Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2010.
    OCLC
    966484481
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