Portret van Benjamin Franklin, James McArdell, after Benjamin Wilson, 1761

Title(s)

Portret van Benjamin Franklin
B. Franklin of Philadelphia (title on object)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-32.417

Catalogue reference

• Chaloner Smith 73
  Remark: aantal staten klopt niet
• Aantal staten bekend-2(3)
  Remark: Russell, 1926.

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Artist

• print maker: James McArdell (mentioned on object)
• after painting by: Benjamin Wilson (mentioned on object)

Place

London

Dating

1761

Material

• paper

Measurements

height 353 mm × width 251 mm

What

• historical persons
• politician, e.g. party leader

Who

• Benjamin Franklin

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• English mezzotint portraits and their states from the invention of mezzotinting until the early part of the 19th century, dl. 2, p. 207, cat.nr. 73-II
• British mezzotinters : James McArdell, p. 72-73, cat.nr. 86
• British mezzotints portraits : being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century, dl. 2, p. 862, cat.nr. 73