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English: Carl Linnaeus dressed as a Laplander, on returning from his journey to Lapland in northern Sweden. The specimen of sami drum that he is carrying is identified as File:Sámi mythology shaman drum Samisk mytologi schamantrumma 052.png.
Date origianal portrait painted 1737 in Hartecamp in the Netherlands
Source Robert Thornton’s New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus …, London 1807.
Author mezzotint print
Henry Kingsbury  (1735–1835)  wikidata:Q53508607
 
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Henry Kinsbury
Description British engraver
Date of birth/death 1735 Edit this at Wikidata 1835 Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1775 Edit this at Wikidata–1815 Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q53508607
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medium QS:P186,Q296955
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Martin Hoffman  (–1800)  wikidata:Q53502706
 
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Martinus Hoffman; Hoffman; M. Hoffman
Description scientific illustrator
Date of birth/death 1800 Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1737 Edit this at Wikidata
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