1938.34: Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Sculpture
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1938.34
- People
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Giovanni Battista Nini, Italian (Urbino, Italy 1717 - 1786 Chaumont sur Loire, France)
- Title
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- relief, sculpture
- Date
- 1777
- Culture
- Italian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/230673
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Technique
- Relief
- Dimensions
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12 x 1.7 cm (4 3/4 x 11/16 in.)
280.2 g - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: impressed on truncation: NINI / F 1777
- inscription: around image, cast: B · FRANKLIN · AMERICAIN
- label: verso, black ink, handwritten: 355 / 140
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1938.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886
- Accession Year
- 1938
- Object Number
- 1938.34
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Descriptions
- Description
- Franklin in profile left, with fur hat. Verso is impressed with fleur-de-lys stamp. On exergue is stamped a crowned crest with hand and lightning bolt. Perforated at upper margin for hanging wire.
Publication History
- Richard Margolis, Benjamin Franklin in Terra Cotta, Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers (Ohio, 2015), pp. 39 (Type 11), 70-73, ill. p. 72-73
- Richard Margolis, Benjamin Franklin in Terra Cotta: Portrait Medallions by Jean-Baptiste Nini at the Chateau of Chaumont, Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers (Gahanna, Ohio, 2015), pp. 39, 70, 154; repr. p. 73, fig. 11
Verification Level
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