Object number
UAC/10451
Title
Charles Linnaeus,
Creator
Description
Large plaster bust of Charles Linnaeus. It is signed and dated Helsinki 1907 on the reverse.
Physical description
plaster on metal
Archival history
Professor Ahti in Helsinki reports via Professor Per Magnus Jørgensen that Runeberg was commissioned by Helsinki University to do a number of busts of famous scientists just after 1900 and that it is very likely that Linnaeus is one of these. It is one of six plaster casts from an original bronze in Saint Petersberg (Finland was then part of Russia and Runeberg is known to have made a bust of the Czar as well). Identical plaster casts are also present in Helsinki and Lund.
Production place
Helsinki
Production date
1907 - 1907
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Credit line
The University of Reading Art Collection
