Prints / Portraits & Caricatures

Sandberg, J[ohan]. G[ustaf]

Jacob Berzelius. Född 1799.

[Stockholm] Tr. Hos Gjöthström & Magnusson. Portrait signed] 1836 [Published 1842] 48 x 34 cm. Lithograph.

Some small creases. A couple of short tears to the margins. A water stain in the right margin. Nice and clean image.

Jacob Berzelius was a chemist and one of the founders of the modern chemistry. The original was executed by Johan Gustaf Sandberg (1752-1854), painter and professor at the Royal Academy of Arts. Johan Cardon lithographed the portrait.  Along with Carl Johan Billmark, he was Sweden´s most eminent  lithographer. In 1843 he received the title "Royal lihographer. The present portrait is from the finest of all 19th. century portrait galleries published in Sweden.

Item No: 2105.