Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14169

    Portrait of Ivan Pavlov

    Date
    1876
    Sitter
    Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849 - 1936, Russian) , Physiologist
    Creator
    Unknown, Photographer
    Object type
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 84mm
    width (print): 52mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of Ivan Pavlov, seated to the left and looking left as viewed. Pavlov wears a white shirt underneath a dark suit jacket.

    Verso inscription: ‘6 Pavlov. Age 26 in 1876. In Ludwig’s laboratory.’

    Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936) Russian physiologist was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1907.

    Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936) Russian physiologist was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1907.

    Pavlov spent a period of his early career studying in the laboratory of Carl Ludwig, assisting with his research on the digestion of dogs. Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig (1816-1895) German physiologist was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1875.
    Object history
    Donated to the Royal Society by the University of Reading, 2012. The University of Reading houses the papers of Hugh Sinclair.
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