M0006727: Portrait of Herman Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (1821-1894)

Date:: 2 April 1940

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/57/1

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

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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: M0006727-M0006827WT/D/1/20/1/57
        M0006727: Portrait of Herman Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (1821-1894)WT/D/1/20/1/57/1

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Credit

M0006727: Portrait of Herman Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (1821-1894). In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Oil painting: portrait of H.L.F. von Helmholtz

Description

Photograph of a painting by H. Schadow of Herman Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (1821-1894), German physicist and physician, in profile, 1894. The painting was acquired at auction from Stevens on 2-4th November 1931, Lot 109, and accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 2nd December 1931 (CC 5493).

Publication/Creation

2 April 1940

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession registers for the item depicted in the glass plate negative:CC 5493.

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.

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