Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Beniamin Franklin.
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Accession number:
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65-08
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Record number:
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65-08-3-001
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JCB call number:
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JC D486m 1790
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Image title:
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Beniamin Franklin.
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Creator 1:
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Johann Heinrich Lips
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Creator 1 dates:
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1758-1817
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Creator 1 role:
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del. & sc.
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Place image published:
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Berlin
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Image publisher:
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Friedrich Bieweg
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Image date:
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1790
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Image function:
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frontispiece, vol. 3
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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15.4 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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8.7 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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21.5 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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11.7 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink
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Materials support:
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paper
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Description:
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Liberty holding a cap on a baton places a laurel wreath on a bust of Benjamin Franklin while an angel [?]points on a world map in two hemispheres to the town of Philadelphia. The locations of London, Berlin, and Paris are also included.
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Source Title:
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Deutsche monatsschrift. 1790. September bis December. Dritter Band.
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Source place of publication:
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Berlin
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Source publisher:
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bei Friedrich Bieweg dem alternen
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Source date:
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1790
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notes:
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The Liberty cap was based on the Phrygian cap of manumission of Asia Minor which was worn by slaves after they had been freed. It was adopted by the Sons of Liberty in America sometime after the French and Indian War in their rebellion against the British crown. Later as the "bonnet rouge," it became the symbol of the French Revolution.
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Time Period:
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1751-1800
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Visual categories:
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Emblems (Allegorical pictures)
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired in 1965.
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Owner and copyright:
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©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
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North America
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Subject Area:
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Artifacts, industry, and human activities
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Subject Area:
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Portraits
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Subject headings:
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Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790--Portraits
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