M0005615: Portrait of Pliny the Elder (c.23-79 A.D.)

Reproduction of a drawing of Gaius Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder) c.23-79 A.D.) Roman naturalist and natural philosopher. Originally from Zsamboki, Janos: Veterum aliquot ac recentium medicorum philosophorumque icones, 1603 and reproduced in Gardner, E. A: A handbook of Greek sculpture, London: 1896-1897

18 August 1938

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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 2021.

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