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TITLE:  D. Benjamin Franklin, et vita inter Americanos acta, et magnis electricitatis periculis clarus / J. Elias Haid sculp., 1780.

CALL NUMBER:  PGA - Haid--D. Benjamin Franklin ... (A size) [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-DIG-ppmsca-09853 (digital file from original print)
LC-USZ62-45185 (b&w film copy neg.)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:  No known restrictions on publication.

SUMMARY:  Print shows Benjamin Franklin, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, wearing fur cap and spectacles, medallion on pedestal.

MEDIUM:  1 print : mezzotint.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  1780.

CREATOR:

Haid, Johann Elias, 1739-1809, engraver.

NOTES:

Title from item.

After portrait by Cochin.

Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 66.

Exhibited: Ben Franklin's Curious Mind, Bruce Museum of Arts and Sciences, Greenwich, Connecticut, 2006.

SUBJECTS:

Franklin, Benjamin,--1706-1790.

FORMAT:

Portrait prints 1780.
Mezzotints 1780.

REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID:  (digital file from original print) ppmsca 09853 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.09853
(digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a45390 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a45390

CONTROL #:  2003675418


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