Portrait of Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz
Date
1906
Sitter
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (1821 - 1894, German) , Physician
Creator
Object type
Library reference
RCN21785
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 158mm
width (print): 117mm
width (print): 117mm
Subject
Description
Half-length portrait of Herman Ludwig von Helmholtz seated and resting left arm on a table. He wears victorian-style dress of frockcoat and waistcoat over a shirt with upturned collar.
Captioned ‘Daguerreotype, 1848’.
Plate 2 from the book Hermann von Helmholtz, by Leo Koenigsberger (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1906), pp.58/59. From an original daguerreotype.
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (1821-1894) was a German physician, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1860.
Captioned ‘Daguerreotype, 1848’.
Plate 2 from the book Hermann von Helmholtz, by Leo Koenigsberger (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1906), pp.58/59. From an original daguerreotype.
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (1821-1894) was a German physician, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1860.
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