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The engraving by Euclanau after Scheffel is from this painting ; 

 I formerly, being misled by the softness of tlie engraving, thought 

 it represented a third and younger painting by Scheffel. 



III. 1740. Ehuexsteed. 



The next portrait of Linue, taken when he was 33 years of age, 

 was the work of Augustus Ehrensverd. The original engraved 

 plate was, in 1891, in the possession of Baron Lewenhaupt, 

 Upsala. It has not been published, but impressions have been 

 taken from the plate at different times and circulated privately. 

 Eichhoi'n had in his collection a print taken before the plate was 

 lettered, and our Society possesses in a volume that was in the 

 Library of Linne a print inserted while it was in his possession. 

 The com])aratively recent print in our collection of the Linuean 

 portraits was presented by Dr. G. Lindstrom. 



The engraving is lettered " Carolvs Linnaeus Med: Doct: Xatus 

 170T Maj 11 u^Etat: 33,'" and immediately below the portrait " Au. 

 Ehrensverd arnica manu sc. 1740." The engraving has been made 

 from life or from a drawing, so that in the print the whole is 

 reversed. The wart which was o]i Linne's right cheek appears on 

 the left cheek. The face is turned to the left, the right hand 

 rests on a volume labelled on the back " Syst. Nat.," while the left 

 hand, resting on the right, holds a flowering plant of Linncea 

 horealis. On his left shoulder is an academic gown which comes 

 round below the right arm to the front of the body in great folds. 



Ehrensverd's engraving is the original of most of the 8vo plates 

 which illustrate the works of Linne. 



There is in the possession of Prof. Tullberg, Upsala, a small 

 painting on vellum, 5 inches by 3^, which is certainly copied from 

 Ehrensverd. The general pose of the figure, and the similar 

 accidental peculiarities like the creases in the sleeve of the coat 

 and in the gown, are conclusive evidence of this. The direction of 

 the figure is the same as in the metal plate engraved by Ehrensverd, 

 and consequently differs from that on the prints from his plate. 

 The left hand rests on the volume, and the right hand holds the 

 Linncea. Besides an obvious feebleness and softness in the 

 portrait, this picture and its reproductions can easily be dis- 

 tinguished from its original by the narrow black tie ■which passes 

 through the holes in the shirt collar, by the less luxuriance of the 

 wig, and by the coniferous trees introduced in the background. 



Tullberg's small vellum painting was engraved by Bernigeroth. 

 and published as the frontispiece to the Stockholm and Leipzig 

 editions of the ' Systema Natui'se ' issued in the same year, 1748. 

 The engraver did not reverse the portrait, so that the aspect of the 

 figure in the print is the same as in that from Ehrensverd's plate. 

 Bernigeroth states that the original from which he Avorked was 

 "delin. 1748," and that is probably the date of Prof. Tullberg's 

 painting. The softness in the treatment of the features in that 



