M0016382: Portrait of Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)

Date:
September 1957
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/147/38
Part of:
Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Portrait of C. Linnaeus in his Lapland dress after Hoffman.

Description

Reproduction of an engraving, 1795, by Kingsbury after Hoffman, of Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) Swedish botanist in his Lapland dress. Reproduced in Linne, Carl von: Ad memoriam primi sui praesidis eiusdemque e conditoribus suis unius Caroli Linnaei, also known as Systema Naturae, Holmiae, 1907. It was published to commemorate the bi-centenary of the birth of Linnaeus. Related images: M0016328EB

Publication/Creation

September 1957

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds 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 2022.

Terms of use

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.

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