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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G3526
People
Augustin de Saint-Aubin, French (Paris 1736 - 1807 Paris)
After Charles-Nicolas Cochin le jeune, French (Paris 1715 - 1790 Paris)
Title
Benjamin Franklin
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1777
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/279719

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Image: 19 × 13.8 cm (7 1/2 × 5 7/16 in.)
Plate: 20.6 × 14.9 cm (8 1/8 × 5 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 23.7 × 17.6 cm (9 5/16 × 6 15/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number
G3526
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Norman K. Risjord, Representative Americans: The Revolutionary Generation, D. C. Heath and Co. (Lexington, MA and Toronto, 1980), p. 3, repr.
  • Joyce Chaplin, The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius, Basic Books (New York, NY, 2006), pp. 252-255, repr. p. 253
  • Katy L. Chiles, Transformable Race: Surprising Metamorphoses in Literature of Early America, Oxford University Press (NY) (New York, NY, 2014), p.81, fig. 2.3

Exhibition History

  • Eighteenth Century European Ceramics, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/02/2005 - 06/09/2008
  • GenEd US12 American Encounters: Art, Contact, and Conflict, 1560-1860 (S427) Spring 2012, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2012 - 05/12/2012

Verification Level

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