Ludwig Becker Self Portrait (between 1850..1861) SmallFiltered

Autor/Urheber:

Frederick Schoenfeld (1810–1868) (see http://www.npg.gov.au/site/collection_info.php?searchtype=basic&searchstring=Frederick%20Schoenfeld&irn=222&acno=2000.32)

Shortlink:

https://www.dewiki.de/b/285948

Quelle:

Wikimedia Commons

Größe:

1360 x 1646 Pixel (667358 Bytes)

Beschreibung:

Ludwig Becker, Australien, 1861

Kommentar zur Lizenz:

PD-1923 PD-old PD-scan

Lizenz:

Public domain

Credit:

This is a scan of an original etching held by Lotte Hoffmann-Kuhnt a descendent of the Becker family from Darmstadt. The etching was made after Ludwig Becker's death in Australia.

In 1860 Becker was asked to join Robert O'Hara Burke's expedition from Victoria to the Gulf of Carpentaria, to collect specimens, and make maps and illustrations of the journey. He died on the way, of scurvy and dysentery. Ludwig Becker had been a member of the Melbourne German Club and Frederick Schoenfeld produced this 1861 lithograph for the club as a memorial portrait.

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