M0008941: Portrait of a man formerly thought to be Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)

Date:
24 September 1943
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/78/43
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Credit

M0008941: Portrait of a man formerly thought to be Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778). In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Portrait of Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778),

Description

Oil painting by a follower of Thomas Hudson of a man previously thought to be Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist. The painting was purchase at auction by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1929 and accessioned in 1941 (accession number P67/1941).

Publication/Creation

24 September 1943

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: 581776i

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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