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The Colonies Reduced; Its Companion, designed and engraved for The Political Register Wall Art
ART BY: Benjamin Franklin
The Colonies Reduced; Its Companion, designed and engraved for The Political Register Wall Art
ART BY: Benjamin Franklin
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The Colonies Reduced; Its Companion, designed and engraved for The Political Register is an etching and engraving by Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), dated 1768. The artist is catalogued as American. The source scan comes from the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the file offered here measures 1608 × 2556 px (1.6 MB). It is filed under Prints, in portrait format. Archive Lane holds 4 works by Benjamin Franklin, an American artist.
Benjamin Franklin was an American polymath active as a physicist, philosopher, statesman and inventor who was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a drafter and signer of the Declaration of Independence, and the first postmaster general.
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