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Watch with Benjamin Franklin
(18th and 19th Centuries )
The image of Franklin reading beside a bust of Isaac Newton is based on a portrait painted in London in 1766-1767 by David Martin (English, 1737-1798). Breguet et fils was a firm founded in Paris in 1775 by Abraham Breguet, an immigrant from Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.
William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
France, Paris (Place of Origin)
Measurements
2 3/16 in. (5.6 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
58.147