COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
67-195
Record number:
67-195-1
JCB call number:
D794 F832wN
Image title:
Dr. Benjamin Franklin
Creator 1:
Peter Rushton Maverick
Creator 1 dates:
1755-1811
Creator 1 role:
Engrav'd by
Place image published:
[New York] 65 Liberty Street
Image publisher:
[Tiebout & Obrian]
Image date:
[1794]
Image function:
frontispiece
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
9.7 cm.
Image dimension width:
7.4 cm.
Page dimension height:
16.1 cm.
Page dimension width:
9.4 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin wearing a fur hat.
Source creator:
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Source Title:
[Autobiography. 1794] The works of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin
Source place of publication:
New-York
Source publisher:
Printed by Tiebout & Obrian for H. Gain, V. Nutter, R. McGill ...
Source date:
[1794]
notes:
Franklin's autobiography was published posthumously and was first published in French. This edition was reprinted from the first London edition.
Time Period:
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1967.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
North America
Subject Area:
Portraits
Subject headings:
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790--Portraits
Dr. Benjamin Franklin
