Charles-Clément Bervic and Alexander Roslin
Portait of Carl Linnaeus
1778
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 320 × 220 mm. (12 5/8 × 8 11/16 in.)
Plate: 245 × 185 mm. (9 5/8 × 7 5/16 in.)
Image: 190 × 160 mm. (7 1/2 × 6 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.4415
After Alexander Roslin's portrait in the Nationalmuseum Stockholm. Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who formalised the modern system of naming organisms called binomial nomenclature. He is known by the epithet "father of modern taxonomy."
Inscribed: Recto: in plate: "Roslin Eques pinx / Clementus Bervic Sculp"; "Carolus a Ljnné"; "Eques Ordinis Reg. Stelloe / Medicinae et historiae Natur / Opsaliensi Acad. R Scienz / Petrop Berol etc Sociua / Polaris Regis Svecioe Archiater / Professor in Universit Reg / Stockholm Opsal Paris Londin / Dominus de Hammarby"
Markings: CM: Claghorn
