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Giovanni Battista Nini, Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886 · Harvard Art MuseumsView original →
Giovanni Battista Nini

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

1779

Current Collection

Harvard Art Museums

Cambridge, United States

Medium
Terracotta
Dimensions
13 × 1.9 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-216631

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.

Provenance

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886

Registry history

  • 1779 — Recorded in the collection of Harvard Art Museums — sculpture

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