Antique Print-ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT-POLYMATH-PORTRAIT-Cook-Begas-c. 1840

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‘ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT (..).’

– Original antique print showing a portrait of Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 1769 ? 6 May 1859), a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science.

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Description

Original antique print showing a portrait of Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 1769 ? 6 May 1859), a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science.

Made by C. Cook after C. Begas.

Medium: Steel engraving on wove (vellin) paper.

Sheet size: 10.3 x 16 cm (4.06 x 6.3 inch). Image size: 8.5 x 14.5 cm. (3.35 x 5.71 inch).

Condition: fair, given age. Image fine. Several imperfections: tears, spots, creases. Large tear at bottom right. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT-POLYMATH-PORTRAIT | PCO-C46-29

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Published in London by D. Bogue, c. 1840.

Biography engraver: Conrad Cook (active 1840-1850), was a British printmaker.

Additional information

Dimensions 16 × 10 × 1 cm

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