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Benjamin Franklin, by an unidentified painter, after Charles Nicolas Cochin's drawing or the engraving from it by Augustin de Saint Aubin, circa 1777-1780.
Credit: Courtesy of the American Philosophical Society
Benjamin Franklin, by an unidentified painter, after Charles Nicolas Cochin's drawing or the engraving from it by Augustin de Saint Aubin, circa 1777-1780. The earliest of the many French portraits of Franklin was a drawing by Charles Nicolas Cochin. An engraving from it by Augustin de Saint Aubin was published in July, 1777.