Portrait bust of Benjamin Franklin (Houdon - NYHS), after 1783 and before 1880
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Collection of The New-York Historical Society (1937.315)

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Exhibitions
"Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World," Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary traveling exhibition, 2005-2008
Related Publications

Poulet, Anne L., Jean-Antoine Houdon, Sculptor of the Enlightenment (Chicago: University of Chicago, 2003)

Sellers, Charles Coleman, Benjamin Franklin in Portraiture (New Haven: Yale University, 1962)

Provenance
Purchased in 1937.
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