ARTIST: Mason Chamberlin
PUBLISHER: Sold by M. Chamberlin in Stewart Street, Old Artillery Ground, Spittalfields. Price 5s.
MEDIUM: Mezzotint engraving,
DATE: 1763
EDITION SIZE: Image size 14 7/8 x 10 7/8" (378 x 277 mm).
DESCRIPTION: M. Chamberlin, pinx. E. Fisher, fecit. A wonderful portrait of Franklin as scientist. A violent storm is raging out the window, while he sagely watches the rods and bells he has set up to capture the lightning.
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CONDITION: Good condition, with unusually wide margins 3/4" for prints of this period. Framed in nineteenth-century receding black and gold molding.
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