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Duplessis-Valade/Portrait of Benjamin Franklin
Portrait of Franklin, in three-quarter right profile, dressed in a coat with fur collar. Franklin signature reproduced below portrait.
Engraving by J. D. Gross, after a ca. 1785 oil painting, probably by French portrait painter Jean Valade (1709-1787), which is after a 1778 painting by Joseph Siffred Duplessis (1751-1831).
ID: 2003-00145
Franklin, Benjamin
MEDIUM: Paper; FORMAT: Print; LENGTH: 6 x 9 in. ; QUANTITY: 1
Topics: History of Science
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