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    231 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)

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The Colonies Reduced; Its Companion, designed and engraved for The Political Register by Benjamin Franklin, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Colonies Reduced; Its Companion, designed and engraved for The Political Register

Benjamin Franklin (d. 1790)

December 1768 · Etching and engraving

Cleared · Public Domain

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Figure of Louis XVI and Benjamin Franklin by Charles-Gabriel Sauvage, called Lemire pere, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Figure of Louis XVI and Benjamin Franklin

Charles-Gabriel Sauvage, called Lemire pere (d. 1827)

1780–85 · Porcelain

Cleared · Public Domain

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Portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Siffred Duplessis, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Portrait of Benjamin Franklin

Joseph Siffred Duplessis (d. 1802)

1780–1820 · Engraving on chine collé

Cleared · Public Domain

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Magna Britannia: Her Colonies Reduced by Benjamin Franklin, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Magna Britannia: Her Colonies Reduced

Benjamin Franklin (d. 1790)

1833 [based on 1766 print] · Etching and engraving

Cleared · Public Domain

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Figure of Benjamin Franklin by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Figure of Benjamin Franklin

Unrecorded maker

1835–45 · Earthenware, transfer-printed

Cleared · Public Domain

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Benjamin Franklin by Henry Kirke Brown, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Benjamin Franklin

Henry Kirke Brown (d. 1886)

1852 · Bronze

Cleared · Public Domain

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Bust of Benjamin Franklin by Isaac Broome, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bust of Benjamin Franklin

Isaac Broome (d. 1922)

1876 · Parian porcelain

Cleared · Public Domain

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

Benjamin Franklin

James McArdell (d. 1765)

1761 · Mezzotint; first state of three

In copyright

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

Benjamin Franklin

James McArdell (d. 1765)

ca. 1761 · Mezzotint; second state of three

In copyright

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

Benjamin Franklin

James McArdell (d. 1765)

May 12, 1794 · Mezzotint; third state of three

In copyright

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

Benjamin Franklin

Charles Turner (d. 1857)

1790–1840 · Mezzotint; second state of two

In copyright

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

Benjamin Franklin

William Harry Warren Bicknell (d. 1947)

ca. 1910 · Etching

In copyright

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