Watch with Benjamin Franklin
The image of Franklin reading beside a bust of Isaac Newton is based on a portrait painted in London in 1766-1767 by David Martin (English, 1737-1798). Breguet et fils was a firm founded in Paris in 1775 by Abraham Breguet, an immigrant from Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
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37734
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object
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normalized
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William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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en
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2
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| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_58.147_Fnt_BW.jpg |
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| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_58.147_Fnt_BW.jpg |
| imageCount | 2 |
| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.147 |
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Medium
silver-gilt with enamel
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