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Title: Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Artist: Mason Chamberlain
Physical Description: Franklin posing on red chair wiht pen and paper in hand, wearing a green outfit.
Artist Life Dates: 1727-1787
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1760
Accession Number: 1895.79
Medium and Support: oil on canvas
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Title: St. Jerome
Artist: Anonymous German (Anspach)
Physical Description: This small porcelain sculpture represents a gaunt, sinewy bearded figure, who is naked except for a loincloth. With his right knee wedged in a stump, his torso contracts with an inner tension as he pounds his chest with stones in an act of penitence. At his feet sits a lion.
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1760-1770
Accession Number: 1974/1.90
Medium and Support: porcelain
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Title: Portrait of a lady under a willow
Artist: India, Andhra Pradesh, Golconda School
Physical Description: The lady stands against a bright green background with only a hint of physical setting. There are some ground lines at her feet with springs of red flowers and a simple stylized willow tree that curves around the figure. She stands with her body turning towards her right with her head in profile. She lifts a flower up in her right hand and hangs her left arms down past her waste. She wears tight lavender colored trousers with a diaphanous skirt covering them with a gold and colored brocaded scarf hanging down the center. Her breasts appear bare, but actually the blouse is also sheer, with a darker color at the shoulders and below her breasts. She wears gold brocade slippers and wide bracelets with black pompoms and rings, necklaces, earrings and a scarf hangs from her shoulders. A gold turban with a black aigrette crowns her. The portrait is framed with some gold and black lines and placed on a simple, buff colored border. An inscription in nastaliq‘ script is above the painting.
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1760
Accession Number: 1970/2.80
Medium and Support: opaque watercolor and gold on paper
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Title: Bamboo in Snow
Artist: Obaku Seikon (Taiho)
Physical Description: Gold and tan colored cloth with a scene of two bamboo shoots.
Artist Life Dates: 1691-1774
Object Creation Date: circa 1760-1774
Accession Number: 2014/2.252
Medium and Support: ink on silk, silk and paper backing
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Title: Interior of Kabuki Theatre During Enactment of a Play
Artist: Torii Kiyotsune
Physical Description: A woodblock print of the inside of a Kabuke theatre and the audience.
Artist Life Dates: (active Edo, c. 1757 - 1780, Edo)
Object Creation Date: circa 1760
Accession Number: 2011/2.200
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper
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Title: Judith with the Head of Holofernes
Artist: Gaspare Traversi
Physical Description: The half-length figure of a woman looks directly out of the painting and holds the bearded head of a man on a platter in her hands. She wears a fine robe with large white sleeves and collar, a soft hat with a small white feather, and a bejeweled pin on her left shoulder. The face of an older woman with deeply wrinkled skin appears in the shadows behind her.
Artist Life Dates: 1722-1724 - circa 1770
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1760
Accession Number: 1996/2.16
Medium and Support: oil on canvas
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