Description
This standing figure of Benjamin Franklin is holding a scroll and has a gilded base. The figure is a model of 1793.
Exhibitions
The Eighteenth Century Art of France and England. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montréal. 1950.
Maryland Heritage: European Art at the Time of the Revolution. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1976.
Maryland: First Catholic Colony. Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore. 1990-1991.
The Princess and the Patriot: Ekaterina Dashkova, Benjamin Franklin, and the Age of Enlightenment. American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia. 2006.
Provenance
Dr. and Mrs. Henry Barton Jacobs, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Jacobs Sale, Baltimore, December 10, 1940, no. 366; Walters Art Museum, 1940, by purchase.
