Portraits

Life Dates: 14 September 1769–6 May 1859

Date Created/Published: ca. 1801

Type: color print

Notes: Photomechanical color reproduction of painting by Aquirre.

Life Dates: 14 September 1769–6 May 1859

Type: black and white print

Notes: Print is of portait in lithograph that includes an elaborate hommage to Humboldt. Full scan upon request. Neg: #337, 4 x 5 of full image.

Life Dates: 14 September 1769–6 May 1859

Date Created/Published: (as a young man)

Notes: Published in: "Acta Horti Berg", 3 (3): plate no. 40. Neg. (4 x 5) includes oval and name.

Life Dates: 14 September 1769–6 May 1859

Date Created/Published: (at late age)

Notes: Printer: A. F. M. Kümpel, Hamburg. Neg: 4 x 5.

Life Dates: 14 September 1769–6 May 1859

Notes: Neg: 35mm, 4 x 5.

Life Dates: 14 September 1769–6 May 1859

Type: black and white print

Notes: Sepia print is the same engraving as HI port. #4. Biographical text below image has been cropped from scan.

Life Dates: 14 September 1769–6 May 1859

Type: black and white print

Notes: Ex: "American Encyclopedia", verso p. 858. Title of "Baron von Humboldt" below image.

Life Dates: 14 September 1769–6 May 1859

Type: engraving

Life Dates: 14 September 1769–6 May 1859

Type: engraving

Notes: Copyright 1881 by Henry J. Johnson; Publisher, New York. Below image "From the latest portrait from life". Same engraving as #10, 10a, but engraving plate was used at a later date for the publication and therefore, given a separate number (#30).

Life Dates: 14 September 1769–6 May 1859

Notes: Neg: 4 x 5. Port. #31 is a copy of original painting; #12 is a photograph of lithograph. Duplicate prints and slide by HI photographer in folder.

Life Dates: 14 September 1769–6 May 1859

Type: black and white print

Notes: Print is photograph of lithograph, HI portrait #6. #31 is a copy of original painting.

Life Dates: 14 September 1769–6 May 1859

Date Created/Published: (as a young man)

Type: black and white slide

Notes: Original slide housed in vault on 5th floor. Copy of engraving #21 in a different publication.

Life Dates: 14 September 1769–6 May 1859

Date Created/Published: 1964 (date issued)

Notes: Portrait is an engraving on a German, 5 mark, banknote.

Life Dates: 14 September 1769–6 May 1859

Date Created/Published: 1964 (date issued)

Notes: Portrait is an engraving on a German, 5 mark, banknote.

Life Dates: 14 September 1769–6 May 1859

Type: color slide

Notes: Original slide and b/w master neg. housed in vault on 5th floor. Print-out in folder.

Life Dates: 14 September 1769–6 May 1859

Type: black and white slide

Notes: Original slide housed in vault on 5th floor.

Life Dates: 14 September 1769–6 May 1859

Date Created/Published: December 1976 (date of painting, 1806)

Type: color slide

Notes: Slide is a copy of original painting by F. G. Weitsch in 1806. Published in: Botting, Douglas; Humboldt and the Cosmos, New York, Harper & Row, 1973 (HI call# LB H919bo, p.87). This port. was considered the same as #12, but it was discovered that #12 is a copy of a lithograph (#6) that was made after the painting by Weitsch. Original slides housed in vault on 5th floor.

Life Dates: 14 September 1769–6 May 1859

Date Created/Published: Date of painting, 1806

Type: black and white print

Notes: Print is a copy of original painting by F. G. Weitsch in 1806. #31a is a b/w copy published in a newsletter(?), #31 is a color copy. Portrait hung in Emanuel Rudolph's office, Ohio State University.

Life Dates: 6 Jun 1829–31 Jul 1912

Life Dates: 13 June 1875–10 October 1965

Date Created/Published: 1937

Type: black and white print

Notes: Neg: 4 x 5, #145. Ref: HI biog. card file.

Life Dates: 13 June 1875–10 October 1965

Date Created/Published: 1937 (at age 62)

Type: black and white print

Notes: Photo is autographed and matted on professional photo board. It was concluded that although similar to port. #1, the image of port. #2 is slightly different, Dec. 2006 - JS.

Life Dates: 13 June 1875–10 October 1965

Date Created/Published: ca. 1950

Type: black and white print

Life Dates: ca. 1752–1809