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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Franklin's Experiment, June 1752 – Demonstrating the identity of Lightning and Electricity, from which he invented the Lightning Rod

Abraham Lincoln|Currier & Ives

1876

Attribution
| Abraham Lincoln|Currier & Ives | American, Hardin County, Kentucky 1809–1865 Washington, D.C.|American, active New York, 1857–1907
Medium
Hand-colored lithograph
Physical dimensions
Image: 8 3/8 × 12 3/8 in. (21.3 × 31.5 cm) Sheet: 13 1/8 × 17 5/8 in. (33.3 × 44.7 cm)
Credit line
Bequest of A. S. Colgate. 1962
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