Lot 379
American School, late 19th/early 20th c., "Profile Bust of Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790)", reverse painting on glass, the 7 in. high image decoratively bordered with gold leaf (design 16 in. diameter), in a modern deep frame (23 in. diameter overall). E1000-2000 Note: Attractively composed and expressed as a "medallic" image, this painted bust apparently follows no known medal of Franklin, nor other sculptural source. It may be based, instead, on the philatelic prototypes of late 19th or early 20th c. U.S. postage stamps (among which it bears a resemblance to issues of 1887, or to others of 1912- 1914). It may thus perhaps have been produced for one of the occasions (or soon after one of the anniversaries) of the centenary of Franklin's death, in 1890, or the bicentenary of his birth, in 1906.
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