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which lie is enjoyiiii;- from a pi2)e equalling iu length but scarcely 

 agreeing iu form with a moderu " churchwarden." Fabricius, iu 

 writing of Linuseus at the time this portrait was takeu, says : " In 

 winter we lived directly opposite his house, and he came to us 

 almost every day in his short red robe de chamhre, with a green 

 fur cap on his head and a pipe in his hand ;" and he adds, " while 

 we danced Liuue sat looking on, and smoking his pipe." 



A good copy of this lithograpli was published in the number 

 of the ' Ny Illustrerad Tidning ' for 4th Dec, 1875, which was 

 devoted to Linmeus. 



In the house of Linna?us at Hammarby there exists a portrait 

 inscribed on the back with the name and titles of Linnjeus, and 

 the year 1755 is given as the date when it was painted. The 

 artist's name has not been discovered on the picture. But in the 

 Smaland's Nationshus, Upsala, there is a very poor copy of this 

 ])icture, which was presented to the Hus iu 1822 by Dr. Nord- 

 stedt, who had bought it at the auction of Archbishop Eosen- 

 stein's effects. It is described as a copy of J. Scheffel's picture 

 at Hammarby. The original is a half-length portrait represent- 

 ing Linnaeus with a short wig, and a buttoned-uj) coat decorated 

 with the cross of the Polar Star, and holding in his right hand a 

 sprig of LiniKra. 



This portrait was admirably engraved in octavo form by I. M. 

 Preisler. The engraving is inscribed " Carolus von Linne " 

 with four lines of titles, the two lines by Aurivillius and the 

 words " Natus 1707 Maji if. ^Etat. 55.'"' The arms and crest, 

 wliich were granted to him in 17G1 when he was ennobled, are 

 engraved iu the middle of the inscription. The picture itself is 

 dated 1755, and there seems no reason to doubt that this is 

 correct, though Preisler must have executed his engraving after 

 1761, and probably inscribed Linuseus's age at the time the 

 engraving was finished. 



It appears that SchefFel, having got hold of the features of 

 Linnaeus, exercised his imagination in producing portraits repre- 

 senting Linnaeus at two previous stages in his life, — when he 

 was married, and, yet earlier, when he entered the University of 

 Lund as a student. 



The painting re])resenting Linmcus as a bridegroom, with 

 scarlet coat and long flowing wig, which is at Hammarby, is in- 

 scribed on the back : — 



" Carl Linnaeus Med. Doctor Dioscorides 2"""" dictus 

 Nat. 1707 . . 13 Maij. J. H. Scbeftel p: 1739." 

 Tlie younger portrait engraved by Kuckmau on the titlepagc 

 of Afzelius's ' Egenhiindiga Anteckningar,' represents Liunreus 

 at the age of 20. This engraving has been reproduced as a 

 lithograph for Rudolph's translation of Afzelius, published at 

 Berlin in 182G, and again for Fee's ' Vic de Linne,' 1832. 



Mr. Gepp has seen in the Upaala Library a large iithogrnph 

 by Carl Schroder said to be after an original picture in the Ducal 



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