Gainsborough/Portrait of Benjamin Franklin

Item

Identifier: FA-BF-0090

Staff Only

Gainsborough/Portrait of Benjamin Franklin still image

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

Caltech Images is a collection of over ten thousand images representing Caltech's history and the people who have contributed to the Caltech story. It includes historic and contemporary photographs of people and places, reproductions of historic scientific artifacts and art, and illustrations drawn from Caltech's rare book collection in the history of science and technology.

Dates

Creation: 1920-

Conditions Governing Access

For more information consult the Caltech Archives Reproduction and Permissions.

Extent

1 photographs

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Reproduction of a portrait painting by Thomas Gainsborough. For many years identified as Franklin (probably due to its similarity to an 18th c. French print by P. Maren). In actuality, is a portrait of David Middleton. Engraving by G. Sanders. Proof. Published by Henry Graves & Co., London, 1868.