M0000272: Portrait of Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) / M0000272EA: Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro (1478-1553)

Date:
August 1929
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/4/30
Part of:
Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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Credit

M0000272: Portrait of Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) / M0000272EA: Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro (1478-1553). Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Portrait of Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778),
Previous title, replaced May 2020: Portrait of Girolamo Fragastoro

Description

One glass plate negative containing two images. The first is an engraving of Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist also known as Carl von Linne. Related images: M0002578, V0003606EL. Second is an engraving of Girolamo Fracastoro (1478-1553), Italian physician, poet, and scholar in mathematics, geography and astronomy (Latin name: Hieronymus Fracastorius)

Publication/Creation

August 1929

Physical description

2 photographs glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 5857i

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.

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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