M0002364: Portrait of Charles Darwin (1809-1882) / M0002365: Portrait of Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902)

Date:: 25 September 1931

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/20/40

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

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  - Library and MuseumWT/D/1
    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0002315-M0002451WT/D/1/20/1/20
        M0002364: Portrait of Charles Darwin (1809-1882) / M0002365: Portrait of Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902)WT/D/1/20/1/20/40

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M0002364: Portrait of Charles Darwin (1809-1882) / M0002365: Portrait of Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902). Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Portrait of Charles Darwin

Previous title, replaced May 2020: R. Virchow from painting by F. Lenbach

Description

Left hand side of plate: Photograph of Charles Darwin (1809-1882), British naturalist, reproduced from an unidentified publication. Right-hand side of plate: Photograph of a half tone print of Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902), pathologist, after a photograph by E. Bieber, after a painting by Franz Lenbach, with caption underneath. This reproduction was made from Müller, Franz Carl, Geschichte der organischen Naturwissenschaften im neunzehnten Jahrhundert, Berlin: G. Bondi, 1902.

Publication/Creation

25 September 1931

Physical description

2 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds copies of the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

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