Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13108

    Portrait of Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz

    Date
    1906
    Sitter
    Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (1821 - 1894, German) , Physician
    Creator
    Unknown, Printmaker
    After
    Franz Seraph von Lenbach (1836 - 1904, German) , Artist
    Object type
    Library reference
    RCN21785
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 142mm
    width (print): 117mm
    height (paper support): 230mm
    width (paper support): 144mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of Hermann von Helmholz, posed holding a book, looking to the left as viewed.

    Plate 3 from the book Hermann von Helmholtz, by Leo Koenigsberger (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1906), pp.378/379. From an original pastel.

    Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (1821-1894), German physician and physicist, was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1860.

    Associated place
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