Pierre Alexandre Tardieu and Joseph Siffrein Duplessis
Benjamin Franklin
1777-1843
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 125 × 86 mm. (4 15/16 × 3 3/8 in.)
Image: 94 × 57 mm. (3 11/16 × 2 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.4632
After Duplessis's painting of 1778.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: Recto: in image, lower center, in plate "FRANKLIN."; below image, lower left, in plate "Duplessis Pinxt."; below image, lower center, in graphite "Pe[t]er"; below image, lower right in plate "Alexre. Tardieu Sculpt."; below image, lower margin, in brown ink "Nat. 1706. [cross] 1790." Verso: lower left in graphite diamond with "4066"
Markings: CM: Claghorn
