Cupid, Flora, Ceres, and Esculapius, Honouring the Bust of Linnaeus.
Russell R.A. and Opie R.A. pinx.t. Ridley sculp.t. London, Published by Dr. Thornton, Duke Street, Grosvenor Square, May 1.1799. Stipple engraving. 485 x 330mm (19 x 13"). Trimmed to plate top and right. Repair in centre right. Carl Linnaeus (1707-78), was a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of nomenclature. W: 1778-29. Ex Collection of Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
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