Sheet from "Iconographie Instructive" with portrait of Benjamin Franklin
Rignoux, Paris|Joseph Siffred Duplessis|Adrien Jarry de Mancy|Benjamin Franklin|Pierre François Bertonnier
ca. 1827 · Letterpress and engraving · Drawings and Prints
An engraved portrait of Benjamin Franklin illustrates this page from Adrien Jarry de Mancy, "Iconographie instructive ou collection de portraits des personnages célèbres de l'histoire moderne, gravées d'après des dessins de M. Devéria et par MM. Allais, Bertonnier, Fontaine, A. Massard, Wedgwood, etc."...1827-29) (An instructive iconography, or collection of portraits of famous people from modern history, engraved after drawings by Mr. Devéria et by Mssrs. Allais, Bertonnier, Fontaine, A. Massard, Wedgwood, etc.). The image is based on a pastel portrait by Duplessis, "the Gray Coat Portrait," ca. 1777-78, now at the New York Public Library (of which there were many later copies).
- Artist
- Rignoux, Paris|Joseph Siffred Duplessis|Adrien Jarry de Mancy|Benjamin Franklin|Pierre François Bertonnier
- Date
- ca. 1827
- Medium
- Letterpress and engraving
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Gift of William Henry Huntington, 1883