The Collection·Room III · The Portraits·Benjamin Franklin
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1706 TO 1790
Benjamin Franklin
After Joseph Duplessis, 1778. The printer among the founders.
digital$9Instant download · 8.5×11, 11×17 & 18×24 · print it tonight
print$4218 × 24 on 100 lb cream cover · off our press · in a tube
edition$145Numbered of 250 · cotton paper · embossed maker's mark · inspected & numbered by hand
| source | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, open access (CC0) · Joseph Siffred Duplessis, 1778 |
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| typeface | Caslon captions |
| paper | 100 lb cream cover, 18 x 24 |
| press | Thomas Graphics, Austin, Texas |
| edition | Numbered of 250, cotton paper, embossed maker's mark |
After the Duplessis portrait of 1778, the fur-collared “VIR” portrait, shown as a detail of the painted oval, reproduced from The Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access imagery, CC0, object 436236, The Friedsam Collection. Franklin was a printer by trade; this shop keeps his line over the press.
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