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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

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Franklin in left profile, bare-headed. On exergue is stamped a crowned crest with hand and lightning bolt. The device of the hand and lightning bolt separates the letters of the inscription. Perforated at upper margin for hanging wire.
Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts Grenville L. Winthrop New York NY; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum 1938. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop Class of 1886
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Title: Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Description:
Franklin in left profile, bare-headed.
On exergue is stamped a crowned crest with hand and lightning bolt.
The device of the hand and lightning bolt separates the letters of the inscription.
Perforated at upper margin for hanging wire.

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