M0000264: Portrait of Samuel Thomas von Sommering (1755 - 1830)

Date:
August 1929
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/4/23
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Credit

M0000264: Portrait of Samuel Thomas von Sommering (1755 - 1830). In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Portrait of Samuel Thomas von Sommering [1755 - 1830],

Description

Lithograph portrait of Samuel Thomas von Sommering (1755-1830) German physician, anatomist, anthropologist, paleontologist and inventor, who discovered the macula in the retina of the human eye. Related images: V0005532.

Publication/Creation

August 1929

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 8875i

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

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