(BENJAMIN FRANKLIN) (1706 - 1790) American statesman, inventor, and author, Signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. A rare and pristine ca. 1800, uncolored portrait engraving showing Franklin at age 84, on an 8" x 10" sheet, being a stippled portrait, signed in the print by Charles Wilson Peale (as the painter), and D. Edwin (as the engraver). Printed from a copper plate measuring 6 1/4" x 4". Near mint.