M0002364: Portrait of Charles Darwin (1809-1882) / M0002365: Portrait of Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902)

Date:: 25 September 1931

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/20/40

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

Archives and manuscripts

Collection contents

Wellcome Trust Corporate ArchiveWT
- Direct activitiesWT/D
  - Library and MuseumWT/D/1
    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0002315-M0002451WT/D/1/20/1/20
        M0002364: Portrait of Charles Darwin (1809-1882) / M0002365: Portrait of Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902)WT/D/1/20/1/20/40

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Portrait of Charles Darwin

Previous title, replaced May 2020: R. Virchow from painting by F. Lenbach

Description

Left hand side of plate: Photograph of Charles Darwin (1809-1882), British naturalist, reproduced from an unidentified publication. Right-hand side of plate: Photograph of a half tone print of Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902), pathologist, after a photograph by E. Bieber, after a painting by Franz Lenbach, with caption underneath. This reproduction was made from Müller, Franz Carl, Geschichte der organischen Naturwissenschaften im neunzehnten Jahrhundert, Berlin: G. Bondi, 1902.

Publication/Creation

25 September 1931

Physical description

2 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds copies of the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.