Jean de Carro. Stipple engraving by J. C. Richter after C. Rahl.

1800-1899

1 print : engraving ; platemark 7.4 x 11.2 cm

Johann De Caro, der Arzneykunde Doctor, geboren zu Genf den 8ten August 1770. Nach Rahl v. J.C. Richter gest. Berl.

Lettering states that the portrait was engraved in Berlin by J.C. Richter after a drawing by Rahl. The Berlin artist Johann Carl Richter died in 1832. Therefore the drawing is more likely to be by Carl Heinrich Rahl (1779-1843) than by Carl Rahl (1812-1865), who would have been only twenty years old at Richter's death

R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 546.1

Wellcome Collection 1656i