Credit: ©The Royal Society
Image number: RS.2373
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Portrait of Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link
Date
19th century
Sitter
Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767 - 1851, German) , Botanist
Creator
Ambroise Tardieu (1788 - 1841, French) , Printmaker
After
Franz Krüger (1797 - 1857, German) , Artist
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 292mm
width (print): 211mm
width (print): 211mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of Link looking to the left as viewed.
Inscribed: “Dessiné et Gravé par Ambroise Tardieu d’apres le Portrait original de Kruger. HENRI Fic. LINK (Botaniste et Medecin), Professeur de Botanique et de Matiere-medicale a Berlin. Ne a Hildesheim (Rme. De Hanovre) le 2 Fevriere 1767“. In pencil lower left : “El.1742 ob 1851.“
J H F Link was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1842.
Inscribed: “Dessiné et Gravé par Ambroise Tardieu d’apres le Portrait original de Kruger. HENRI Fic. LINK (Botaniste et Medecin), Professeur de Botanique et de Matiere-medicale a Berlin. Ne a Hildesheim (Rme. De Hanovre) le 2 Fevriere 1767“. In pencil lower left : “El.1742 ob 1851.“
J H F Link was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1842.
Transcription
Dessiné et Gravé par Ambroise Tardieu d’apres le Portrait original de Kruger. HENRI Fic. LINK (Botaniste et Medecin), Professeur de Botanique et de Matiere-medicale a Berlin. Ne a Hildesheim (Rme. De Hanovre) le 2 Fevriere 1767
El.1742 ob 1851
El.1742 ob 1851
Object history
Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), p.43.
Associated place