Sir James Edward Smith, with a vignette of the pursuit of the ship containing the Linnean collection by order of the King of Sweden. Stipple engraving by W. Ridley, 1800, after J. Russell.

  • Russell, John, 1745-1806.
Date:
1800
Reference:
8823i
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Botanist and plant physiologist. He purchased the Linnean library and natural history collections for a thousand guineas and was founder and president of the Linnean Society. The story that Gustavus III of Sweden sent a ship to rescue the Linnean collections may be apocryphal

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1800

Physical description

1 print : stipple engraving, with etching

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References note

R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 2760.3

Reference

Wellcome Collection 8823i

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