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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1457
People
? Jean Baptiste Pillement, French (Lyon 1728 - 1808 Lyon)
Title
Design in Memory of Benjamin Franklin
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1790
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297281

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink over graphite on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
framed: 71 x 54.2 cm (27 15/16 x 21 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Along bottom edge: "LÉE A FAIT DÉPOSER AUX ARCHIVES NATIONALES ENTRE L’ADRESSE À SON PRÉSIDENT ET L’EXPLICATION DES ALLÉGORIES QUE PRÉSENTENT CE MAUSOLÉE COMPOSÉE ET ÉXÉCUTÉE À LA PLUME PAR ROY"

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.1457
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Washington, Lafayette, Franklin: Portraits, Books, Manuscripts, Prints, Memorabilia, for the Most Part from the Collections of the University, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1944), p. 31, cat. 67
  • Louise Todd Ambler, Benjamin Franklin: A Perspective, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1975), p. 143, no. 88
  • A New Attribution, Index Magazine, Harvard Art Museums (March 8, 2017), [e-journal], http://magazine.harvardartmuseums.org/article/2017/03/08/new-attribution, accessed March 20, 2017
  • Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 176, 285, repr. p. 175 as fig. 2

Exhibition History

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