Benjamin Franklin Medallion

Benjamin Franklin Medallion

LCSH: Porcelain, French—18th century—Pictorial works | Porcelain, French—Private collections | Porcelain, French—Sèvres—18th century—Slide collections | Sèvres porcelain—18th century—Pictorial works | Slides (Photography)—Private collections | Fritzsche, Ulrich—Art collections—Pictorial works | Gilding—France—18th century | Biscuit ware—France—18th century | Medallions (Decorative arts)—18th century | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706–1790—Pictorial works | Caffierri, Jean-Jacques—Pictorial works

Getty AAT keywords: porcelain (material) | porcelain (visual works) | gilding-technique | portraits | biscuit (porcelain, material)

35mm color slide of a white biscuit medallion (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). This slide shows the verso of the Benjamin Franklin portrait in Slide 54a. It is inscribed in sepia ink with the date 1780 and the words: “Le docteur Franklin envoyé des Etats-unis sollicite l’appui de la France contre les Anglais” (Fritzsche 2018) (“Dr. Franklin, sent from the United States, solicits France’s assistance against the British”). The number 54 is handwritten on the slide.

Fritzsche, Ulrich (creator of slide); D’Arms, Ted (photographer); Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (creator of object)

Seattle Art Museum Libraries

1780 (date of object)

October 1984 (date of slide)

Painter, Kirsten Blythe

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English | French

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France

eighteenth century (dates CE)

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