Historical Portraits of Scientists

A collection of artistic portraits and illustrations featuring historical figures in science, showcasing diverse styles and eras in academic representation.

Portrait of Mr. Smith. Edma Queenedey (1756-1830). "Portrait of Mr. Smith". Physionotrace. 1817.

Portrait of Mr. Bayer Edma Queenedey (1756-1830). "Portrait of Mr. Bayer". Physionotrace.

Vanity Fair - Doctors and Scientists. 'Oxford Physiology'. Dr. John Scott Burdon on Sanderson. 17 May 1894, Leslie Matthew 'Spy' Ward, 1851-1922, British, 1894, Chromolithograph

Vanity Fair - Doctors and Scientists. 'There is no man of greater in his profession'. Sir William Fergusson. 17 December 1870, Carlo Pellegrini, 1839-1889, Italian, 1870, Chromolithograph

A phrenologist examines two skulls from his collection. Reproduction of an etching by H. Daumier.

Fig. 37.

Vanity Fair - Explorers and Inventors. 'Birmingham University'. Sir Oliver J. Lodge. 4 February 1904, Leslie Matthew 'Spy' Ward, 1851-1922, British, 1904, Chromolithograph

Électro-Physiologie Photographique, Figure 83.

Électro-Physiologie Photographique, Figure 7.

Portrait of Mr. Smith. Edma Queenedey (1756-1830). "Portrait of Mr. Smith". Physionotrace. 1817.

Électro-Physiologie Photographique, Figure 14.

Vanity Fair - Doctors and Scientists. 'Dietetics'. Dr. Nathaniel Edward Yorke-Davies. 12 April 1900, Leslie Matthew 'Spy' Ward, 1851-1922, British, 1900, Chromolithograph

Électro-Physiologie Photographique, Figure 19.

A wealthy doctor counting money. Lithograph.

Électro-Physiologie Photographique, Figure 42.

C. Delavigne

Électro-Physiologie Photographique, Figure 13.

Carlo Pellegrini, 1839-1889, Italian, Vanity Fair - Doctors and Scientists. 'Disease of the Throat'. Sir Mosell MacKenzie. 15 October 1887, 1887. Chromolithograph.

Vanity Fair - Doctors and Scientists. 'Disease of the Throat'. Sir Mosell MacKenzie. 15 October 1887, Carlo Pellegrini, 1839-1889, Italian, 1887, Chromolithograph

Electro-physiologie Photographique, Fig. 81. Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne, photographer (French, 1806 - 1875) and Adrien Alban Tournachon, photographer (French, 1825 - 1903) negative about 1856, print 1876 View of Dr. Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne (de Boulogne) holding an electrode between the eyes of a woman to demonstrate the use of electrical current to cause facial muscles to contract and produce an expression of meanness. The woman wears a loosely fitted dress and sits with one hand in her lap holding a knife and the other holding her breast. (Recto, image) upper right, inscribed in negative, right corner: "Fig. 81." (Recto, mount) upper center, in black ink by mechanical press: "Electro-Physiologie Photographique" Lower right, in black ink by mechanical press: "DUCHENNE (de Boulogne), phot." (Verso, mount) lower left, in pencil by unknown later hand: "IB 62.80 (Duch.)/ 1979.297."

Portrait of Pierre Janssen, Félix Nadar, c. 1882 - in or before 1892 photomechanical print Paris paper astronomy (and cosmography)

Etching by Pierre Hutin produced in 1765 depicting a chemist at work, showing figure, posture, tools, and 18th-century etching techniques.

PortraT van Georges -Louis Leclerc de Buffon, Gottlob August Lieb, 1773 - 1819 print paper engraving historical persons. biology (+ portrait of scholar, scientist)

This 1914 silver gelatin photograph by Hans Molisch shows a detailed depiction of a leaf and anatomical reference to the breast of Prof. Dr. Molisch, emphasizing structure and morphology.

Pischijk. A doctor is at work behind a table on which books, including a botanical work. He holds a urinal against the light. Behind him a room screen on which a printed stick (map).

LOUIS PASTEUR French chemist and microbiologist in his study Date: 1822 - 1895

Portret van Lewis Boss, anonymous, c. 1882 photograph photographic support albumen print exploration, expedition, voyage of discovery. historical persons. astronomy (and cosmography)

Leslie Matthew 'Spy' Ward, 1851-1922, British, Vanity Fair - Doctors and Scientists. 'A Master of the knife'. Sir A. Fripp, 1907. Chromolithograph.

Vanity Fair - Doctors and Scientists. 'Astronomy'. Sir George Biddell Airy. 13 November 1875, Carlo Pellegrini, 1839-1889, Italian, 1875, Chromolithograph

Vanity Fair - Doctors and Scientists. 'Electricity'. Sir David L. Salomons., Leslie Matthew 'Spy' Ward, 1851-1922, British, 1908, Chromolithograph

Robert Grant, LL.D., Professor of Practical Astronomy. Thomas Annan (Scottish,1829 - 1887)

Carlo Pellegrini, 1839-1889, Italian, Vanity Fair - Doctors and Scientists. Sir William Bartlett-Dalby-Knight. 22 December 1888, 1888. Color lithograph.

A deep dissection of the muscles of the thigh. Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.

Fig. 79.

Vanity Fair - Doctors and Scientists. 'A Master of the knife'. Sir A. Fripp., Leslie Matthew 'Spy' Ward, 1851-1922, British, 1907, Chromolithograph

Etching and copper engraving by John Boydell depicting an alchemist at work, created between 1740 and 1804, showing laboratory equipment, chemical apparatus, and 18th-century scientific practice.

Fig. 64.

Fig. 83.

Fig. 46.

Électro-Physiologie Photographique, Planche 3.

Électro-Physiologie Photographique, Planche 6.

Portrait of a test subject during electrostimulation: 'un Vieillard'. Unnumbered page with photo 46 from Mécanism de la Physionomy Humaine ou analysis Électro-Physiologique de l'Expression des Passions (Atlas).

Électro-Physiologie Photographique, Planche 2.

Andreas Vesalius in his office, Adolphe Mouilleron, After Edouard Hamman, c. 1856 print The Anatoma Andreas Vesalius stands in a departure with the corpse of a man on the table next to him for anatomical examination. He looks around at the crucifix that hangs on the wall. On the table behind him tools and a skull. There is different tools at the operating table. Left front a thick book on a stool; In addition to the operating table, an open book on Lessenaar. printer: Parispublisher: Londonpublisher: Düsseldorfpublisher: Brussels paper. the corpse. some aspects of anatomy in particular. historical persons

Richard Owen (1804-1892) British zoologist. Opponent of Charles Darwin and theory of evolution by natural selection. Cartoon from Vanity Fair, London, March 1873

William Huggins (1824-1910) British astronomer and spectroscopist. Inventor of solar spectroscope. 'Spy' (Leslie Ward) cartoon from 'Vanity Fair' London 1903.

Charles William Siemens (born Carl Wilhelm von Siemens - 1823-1883) German mechanical and electrical engineer born near Hanover. Brother of Werner von Siemens. He took British nationality in 1859. Invented the regenerative (open hearth) furnace which developed into the Siemens-Martin process for the production of large quantities of steel. Cartoon by Edward Linley Sambourne in the Punch's Fancy Portraits series from 'Punch' (London, 28 July 1883).

Carlo Pellegrini, 1839-1889, Italian, Vanity Fair - Doctors and Scientists. 'Astronomy'. Sir George Biddell Airy. 13 November 1875, 1875. Chromolithograph.

Fig. 57.

Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895), French chemist and microbiologist, checking the laboratory animals at the Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris. Date: 1884

Raimund Nimführ -, aviation theorist, meteorologist, Unknown, photographer

John William Draper, M.D., L.L.D., profr. of chemistry and physiology in the University of New York.. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Draper, John William, 1811-1882, Teachers

Électro-Physiologie Photographique, Planche 9.

Électro-Physiologie Photographique, Figure 75.

Henry Cavendish (1731-1810) English natural philosopher and chemist. Cavendish Physical Laboratory, Cambridge, named after him. Lithograph published c 1851

Leslie Matthew 'Spy' Ward, 1851-1922, British, Vanity Fair - Doctors and Scientists. Mr. Frank Crisp. 31 May 1890, 1890. Chromolithograph.

Illustrations by Govard Bidloo, from the anatomy textbook 'Ontleding des menschelyken Lichaams'. (Amsterdam 1690).Govard Bidloo was born in Amsterdam in 1649 and became professor of anatomy at The Hague from 1688 to 1702

Thereza Dillwyn Llewelyn with Her Microscope ca. 1854 John Dillwyn Llewelyn British, Welsh The border of Llewelyn's image is a photogram of ferns, a clever variation on the decorative borders of lace, cut paper, or ink and watercolor that embellished many nineteenth-century albums. In the central vignette we see the photographer's daughter Thereza (1834-1926), with her books, botanical specimens, and scientific apparatus. label for Gilman IV. Thereza Dillwyn Llewelyn with Her Microscope. John Dillwyn Llewelyn (British, Swansea, Wales 1810-1882 Swansea, Wales). ca. 1854. Salted paper print from glass negative. Photographs

Fig. 50.

Vinzenz Kletzinsky -, chemist, Rudolf von Bohr -, photographer

Servitor, Oxford University, in a sleeveless gown of princes' stuff, with strips appended from the shoulders, early 19th century. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from William Henry Pyne's The World in Miniature: England, Scotland and Ireland, Ackermann, 1827.

Louis Pasteur in his office at the Pasteur Institute, Paris. Louis Pasteur, 1822 - 1895. French chemist and microbioligist who discovered, amongst other things, pasteurization and the principlies of

Portrait of Arnold Marcel, Aert Schouman, 1748 print The mathematician, physicist and maker of magnifying glasses Arnold Marcel. He is in his workshop, surrounded by various mathematical instruments. The Hague (possibly) paper measuring-instruments. spectacle-maker, optician

The torso and arm of a man suffering from syphilis, showing a rash of macular syphiloderm. Colour lithograph after Mracek (), ca. 1905.

Vitiligo. Arthur de Montmeja, photographer (French, born 1841) negative about 1867, print 1882 View of a nude man standing with his arms at his side to show patches of vitiligo covering his arms, legs, torso, and head. (Recto, mount) upper center, printed in black ink: "DIFFORMITIES DE LA PEAU" Lower left, printed in black ink: "A. de Montmeja" Lower center, printed in black ink: "VITILIGO" Lower right, printed in black ink: "Ad naturam fecit"

Edward Jenner, standing, a field with cows behind. Chromolithograph.

Scrofulide érythémateuse. Arthur de Montmeja, photographer (French, born 1841) negative about 1867, print 1882 View of a woman with a butterfly rash from systemic lupus erythematosus covering her cheeks, forehead, and nose. (Recto, mount) upper center, printed in black ink: "SCROFULIDES" Lower left, printed in black ink: "A. de Montmeja" Lower center, printed in black ink: "SCROFULIDE ÉRYTHÉMATEUSE" Lower right, printed in black ink: "Ad naturam fecit"

Portrait of George R. Agassiz, professor of zoology at Harvard University, reading a book - digital file from original item | Library of Congress

a chef separating and shaping thin strings of sugar for a dessert, from 'Le Livre De patisserie' 1867 by Jules Gouffe. chromolithograph

Portrait of French archaeologist Charles-Jean-Melchior de Vogue (1829-1916), illustration from L'Illustration, No 3094, June 14, 1902.

Image of Jordaan Everhard van Rheden (1822-1890), head teacher in Wijk bij Duurstede, working with a microscope.

Enchondroma of the scapula. Date/Period: 1863. Photograph. Albumen print Albumen print. Author: James Wallace Black.

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842-1919) British physicist. Nobel Prize for Physics 1904. Discovered the element Argon, one of the noble (inert) gases. Cartoon from Vanity Fair, London, December 1899

The study of geography , Geography, Globes, Studying. The Massachusetts WPA Federal Art Project Photograph Collection

François Antoine Meyer, doctor. Charles-François Le Tellier (1743-1800). "François Antoine Meyer, Doctor". Physionotrace.

Fig. 17.

Mecanisme de la Physionomie Humaine ou Analyse Electro-Physiologique de l'Expression des Passions. Date/Period: 1862. Book. Albumen silver. Author: Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne.

Albumin photograph illustrating position and lighting techniques on the left side of Tafel V from Dr. Franz Stolze's second booklet, produced by Schulz & Suck in 1885.

Transparency - Sir William Edmond Logan, geologist, Montreal, QC, painted photograph, 1869-70

Électro-Physiologie Photographique, Figure 50.

Royal Microscopical Society Presidents, 1842-1857: eight portraits. Photolithograph, ca. 1880.

Engraving depicting a scientist conducting an experiment to show centrifugal force. Dated 19th Century

Virey "Histoire naturelle...", 1801: plate

Three examples of an incorrectly exposed negative and one example of a correctly exposed negative, recto - printed, photomechanical print, page, photographs, photographically illustrated books, a. Negative shave, but blurred, P. 1. b. Negative unscharf, P. 1., c., shave und klar. d., double, P. 3., Table I., height 215 mm, width 140 mm, maker, producer, 1890 - 1895, paper, papier, collotype

Members of the Association of Homeopathic Doctors, meeting in Vienna. Lithograph by J. Kriehuber, 1857.

Bout Alikhooki, Tierra del Fuego man drawn from life in European clothes at Plymouth, and Patagonian of Cape Gregory in llama fur coat. Natives of South America. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from his Natural History of the Human Species, Edinburgh, W. H. Lizars, 1848.

Eadwaerd Muybridge (1830-1904) English-born American inventor and photographer, giving a talk to the Royal Society, London, England, on his photographic studies of animal motion. May 1889.

An albumin paper photograph by Johann Victor Krämer around 1900 showing artists' templates for educational and creative reference.

Josef Rudolf Joss born 1787, Dr., Professor at the Polytechnic Institute in Vienna for Pharmazie, Chemistry, Historically, Digitally restored reproduction of a template from the 19th century, Record Date Not Stated

05/31/1912. Bartolomé Lorenzo de Guzmán, precursor of Aerostation. Photo: "Sports" -Approximate date.

The mysteries of science | Library of Congress

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher. He got into trouble with the church over his claim that the sun, and not the earth, is at the centre of the universe. Date: 1630s

$An engraving depicting a refracting stereoscope: two pictures of Charles Wheatstone taken from slightly different angles. When placed in the stereoscope they gave a third-dimensional picture. Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875) an English scientist and inventor. Dated 19th century$

Skiopticon image from the Department of Photography at the Royal Institute of Technology. Use by Professor Helmer Bäckström as lecture material. Bäckström was Sweden's first professor in photography at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm 1948-1958.exampel on "excessive" perspective on the close-up of objects with a great extent in the deep. Bäckström, Helmer. Photographic manual. Nature and Culture. Stockholm. 1942. p. 165.

Portrait of Joseph Priestley, 1789. Engraver: W Nutter. After: John Hazlitt. Publisher: John Hazlitt. Joseph Priestley, (1733-1804) was a clergyman, political theorist, and physical scientist whose work contributed to advances in liberal political and religious thought and in experimental chemistry. He is best remembered for his contribution to the chemistry of gases. .

Charles Friedel and others at the Geneva congress for reform of chemical nomenclature. Photograph, 1892.

Syphilide végétante. Arthur de Montmeja, photographer (French, born 1841) negative about 1867, print 1882 View of a man with cauliflower-like lesions from syphilis covering his forehead, upper lip, chin, and cheeks. (Recto, mount) upper center, printed in black ink: "SYPHILIDES" Lower left, printed in black ink: "A. de Montmeja" Lower center, printed in black ink: "SYPHILIDE VÉGÉTANTE" Lower right, printed in black ink: "Ad naturam fecit"

Francis Galton's composite portraiture, depicting psychological types, obtained by superimposing numerous photos of a specific type Date: 1883

Portrait of Arnold Marcel, Aert Schouman, 1748 print The mathematician, physicist and maker of magnifying glasses Arnold Marcel. He is in his workshop, surrounded by various mathematical instruments. The Hague (possibly) paper measuring-instruments. spectacle-maker, optician

Anatomical lesson of Nicolaes Tulp, 1851 print printer: Amsterdampublisher: Amsterdampublisher: London paper anatomy lesson

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