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Source Description
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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Document identity
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37734
label
Watch with Benjamin Franklin
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obj
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object
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Source metadata
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37734
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title
Watch with Benjamin Franklin
description
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.
provenance
William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
ca. 1830
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CC0
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en
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Timepieces, Clocks & Watches
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2
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2
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import
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2 3/16 in. (5.6 cm)
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med
silver-gilt with enamel
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4610
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15441
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EAN
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none
Page inventory
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1
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photo
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0f834fa19d64419c
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no
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no
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2
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photo
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7825de8afa84c9ba
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