Conrad Westermayer Engraver (1 results)

[Weimar, Germany?: np, 1794?]. Laid paper. Platemark trimmed. Sheet size: 7 x 4¼ inches. Late eighteenth-century portrait of Benjamin Franklin, a stipple engraving by Conrad Westermayer, signed "C. Westermayer fecit 1794." Based upon the portrait made by the royal Manufacture Nationale at Sèvres between 1778 to 1779. Mitchell Sale 424 "Very rare." For the Sèvres medallions, etc., see Sellers, Franklin in Portraiture, p365 and Plates 12 and 14. Not in Weitenkampf.…