Martin/Portrait of Benjamin Franklin
- Title
- Martin/Portrait of Benjamin Franklin
- Collection
- Caltech Images Collection
- Series
- Fine Art Photographs
- Identifier
- FA-BF-0071
- Extents
- 1 photographs
- Abstract
- Portrait of Franklin seated at a table, wearing glasses and chin resting on thumb of right hand, reading a manuscript. Reproduction of Franklin signature below portrait. Engraving by Illman & Pilbrow after a 1766 original painting by David Martin (1737-1798) [note the ornately carved back of the chair].