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Charles Linnaeus

Also known as: Charles Linnaeus; primary name: Linnaeus, Charles; other name: Linnaeus, Carl; other name: Linnaeus, Carolus; other name: Linneo, Carolus; other name: Linnæus, Carl von; other name: Linnæus, Carl; other name: Linnæus, Carolus; other name: Linné, Carl von; other name: Linné, Charles de; other name: Linné, Charles; other name: Linnée, Charles de
Details: individual; scientist/engineer; medical; Swedish; Male
Life dates: 1707-1778
Biography: Scientist, botanist, physician, pedagogue, founder of the modern classification of organisms; one of the founding member of the founders of the Swedish Academy of Sciences (1739) and member of the French Academy of Sciences.

59 related objects

admission-ticket

Museum number: MG.859 |
Production date: 1844

admission-ticket

Museum number: MG.858 |
Production date: 1844

banknote; specimen

Museum number: 2005,0918.1 |
Authority: BIOG116103 Issuer:Sveriges Riksbank |
Production date: 1986-1988 |
Production place: Issued in:Sweden

banknote

Museum number: 2005,0729.14 |
Authority: BIOG116103 Issuer:Sveriges Riksbank |
Production date: 1996-1998 |
Production place: Issued in:Sweden

banknote

Museum number: 2009,4048.1 |
Authority: BIOG116103 Issuer:Sveriges Riksbank |
Production date: 2001 |
Production place: Issued in:Sweden

banknote

Museum number: 2009,4048.2 |
Authority: BIOG116103 Issuer:Sveriges Riksbank |
Production date: 2001 |
Production place: Issued in:Sweden

medal

Title: Carl Linnaeus |
Museum number: 1979,0630.1 |
Producer name: BIOG135035 Designed by:Christien Nijland |
Production date: 1978 |
Production place: Made in:Netherlands

medal

Museum number: 1870,0507.17950 |
Producer name: BIOG117775 Made by:William Woodhouse |
Production date: 1844 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

medal

Museum number: 1865,0324.1573 |
Producer name: BIOG117775 Made by:William Woodhouse |
Production date: 1844 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

medal

Museum number: M.3875 |
Producer name: BIOG249978 Made by:Sherriff F. |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

medal

Museum number: 1963,0108.1 |
Producer name: BIOG96780 Made by:John Pinches (Medallists) Limited |
Production date: 1962 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

medal

Museum number: M.3867 |
Production date: 1834 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

medal

Museum number: 1865,0324.1561 |
Production date: 1835 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

medal

Museum number: M.3858 |
Producer name: BIOG91909 Die Engraved or Modelled for Reducing Machine:Thomas Halliday |
Production date: 1835 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

medal

Museum number: M.3861 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

medal; electrotype

Museum number: 1963,1112.6 |
Producer name: BIOG113712 Designed by:John Pinches |
Production date: 1940 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

medal

Museum number: 1966,0403.630 |
Producer name: BIOG116285 Made by:W J Taylor |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

medal

Museum number: 1865,0324.1213 |
Producer name: BIOG116285 Die Engraved or Modelled for Reducing Machine:W J Taylor |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

medal

Museum number: 1906,1203.1 |
Producer name: BIOG96780 Made by:John Pinches (Medallists) Limited |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

portrait medallion; cameo

Museum number: 1887,0307,I.63 |
Producer name: Factory of:Wedgwood & BentleyModelled by:John Flaxman |
Production date: 1775-1780 |
Production place: Factory in:Etruria (England)

print

Museum number: 1982,U.3022 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1782

print

Title: Carl von Linné |
Museum number: Mm,1.10 |
Producer name: Print made by:Piercy RobertsAfter:Alexander Roslin |
Production date: 1805 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Cupid, Flora, Ceres and Eusculapius, honoring the bust of Linnaeus |
Museum number: 1869,0508.317 |
Producer name: After:John RussellAfter:John Opie |
Production date: 1799

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1882,0909.51-64 |
Producer name: Printed by:W ClowesPublished by:Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington |
Production date: 1880 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; frontispiece

Museum number: 1954,1103.377 |
Producer name: Print made by:RuckmanAfter:Scheffel |
Production date: 1823 |
Production place: Published in:Stockholm (city)

print; document

Museum number: D,3.582 |
Producer name: BIOG222927 After:G W Downing |
Production date: 1816

print

Museum number: 1859,0212.123 |
Producer name: Print made by:Friedrich August AndorffPrinted by:Angerer |
Production date: 1834-1875

print

Title: Linnaeus |
Museum number: 1901,1022.1474 |
Producer name: Print made by:John ChapmanPublished by:Adlard & Jones |
Production date: 1812 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Linnaeus |
Museum number: 1893,0202.129 |
Producer name: Print made by:MeyersPublished by:Harrison & Co |
Production date: 1796 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; bookplate

Museum number: 1982,U.2102 |
Producer name: BIOG25907 Print made by:Balthasar Anton Dunker |
Production date: 1780s

print; book-illustration

Title: Carolus Linnaeus, Knight ofthe Polar Star, first Physician to the King... |
Museum number: 1948,0315.12.131 |
Producer name: Print made by:John OgbornePrint made by:Francesco Bartolozzi |
Production date: 1806 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; frontispiece

Museum number: 1873,0712.594 |
Producer name: BIOG31014 Print made by:James Heath |
Production date: 1794

print; book-illustration

Title: Carolus Linnaeus, Knight ofthe Polar Star, first Physician to the King... |
Museum number: 1871,1209.734 |
Producer name: Print made by:John OgbornePrint made by:Francesco Bartolozzi |
Production date: 1806 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Linnaeus |
Museum number: 1901,1022.1473 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles Eden WagstaffAfter:Lorenz Pasch the Younger |
Production date: 1800-1850 |
Production place: Published in:GlasgowPublished in:Edinburgh

print

Title: Carl von Linné, Knight of the Polar Star &c &c |
Museum number: 1920,1211.1651 |
Producer name: Print made by:William EvansPublished by:Lackington & Co |
Production date: 1806 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Linnée |
Museum number: 1901,1022.1472 |
Producer name: BIOG47998 Print made by:Ambroise Tardieu |
Production date: 1805-1841

print; title-page

Museum number: 1895,1031.596 |
Producer name: Calligrapher:Peltro William TomkinsPrint made by:Abraham Cooper |
Production date: 1807

print; book-illustration

Title: Carolus Linneus |
Museum number: Ee,6.110 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1770

print

Title: Carolus a Ljnné |
Museum number: 1875,0710.536 |
Producer name: Print made by:Clementus BervieAfter:Alexander Roslin |
Production date: 1779

print

Title: Jeunesse de Linnée Galeries Modernes |
Museum number: 1871,0812.3992 |
Producer name: Print made by:Pierre Émile DesmaisonsAfter:Louis Prosper Roux |
Production date: 1854 |
Production place: Printed in:Paris (France)Published in:Paris (France)

print

Title: Charles Linné Collection des Grands Hommes |
Museum number: 1871,1209.735 |
Producer name: Print made by:Pierre Michel AlixAfter:Alexander Roslin |
Production date: 1792

print

Title: Carolus Linnaeus |
Museum number: Bb,15.262 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1750-1800

print

Title: Charles von Linne |
Museum number: O,6.198 |
Producer name: Print made by:George Sigmund FaciusPrint made by:Johann Gottlieb Facius |
Production date: 1788 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Carl von Linné |
Museum number: Mm,1.21 |
Producer name: Print made by:Piercy RobertsAfter:Alexander Roslin |
Production date: 1805 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Aesculapius, Flora, Ceres and Cupid honouring the The Temple of Flora |
Museum number: 1895,0408.9 |
Producer name: Print made by:James CaldwallAfter:John Russell |
Production date: 1806 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Linné och Hans Lärjungar |
Museum number: 1940,1007.3.28 |
Producer name: AUTH228791 Published by:Svenska Familj Journalens förlag |
Production date: 1864-1887

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1906,1217.11-21 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1906

print

Title: Charles von Linne |
Museum number: Mm,1.29 |
Producer name: Print made by:George Sigmund FaciusPrint made by:Johann Gottlieb Facius |
Production date: 1788 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Charles von Linné |
Museum number: Mm,1.30 |
Producer name: Print made by:George Sigmund FaciusPrint made by:Johann Gottlieb Facius |
Production date: 1788 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Linnaeus in his Lapland dress. |
Museum number: 1896,0618.2 |
Producer name: Print made by:Henry KingsburyPrint made by:Robert Dunkarton |
Production date: 1805 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Carl von Linne / Born May 21st 1707 Died Jany 10th 1770 |
Museum number: Mm,1.9 |
Producer name: Print made by:Piercy RobertsAfter:Alexander Roslin |
Production date: 1805 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Carolus Linneo |
Museum number: 1875,0710.3952 |
Producer name: Print made by:Felice ZulianiIntermediary draughtsman:Tramontini |
Production date: 1780-1834

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1872,0511.905 |
Producer name: After:Jean Jacques François Le BarbierPrint made by:Louis Berthet |
Production date: 1786-1800

print; book-illustration

Title: Linnaeus in his Lapland dress. |
Museum number: 1948,0315.1.121 |
Producer name: Print made by:Henry KingsburyPrint made by:Robert Dunkarton |
Production date: 1805 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Carolus Linné |
Museum number: 1954,1103.378 |
Producer name: Print made by:C A BrolingAfter:Carl Fredrik Sundval |
Production date: 1798

print; book-illustration

Title: Carolus Linnaeus |
Museum number: G,1.209 |
Producer name: Print made by:Pieter TanjéPublished by:G J Wishoff |
Production date: 1740-1760 |
Production place: Published in:Leiden

print

Title: Linnaeus in his Lapland dress. |
Museum number: 1902,1011.2961 |
Producer name: Print made by:Henry KingsburyPrint made by:Robert Dunkarton |
Production date: 1805 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Linnaeus |
Museum number: 1872,1109.167 |
Producer name: BIOG38292 Print made by:Henry Meyer |
Production date: 1795-1845

print

Title: Linnaeus |
Museum number: 1954,1103.426.20 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles Eden WagstaffAfter:Lorenz Pasch the Younger |
Production date: 1810-1840 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

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