CONRAD GESSNER. 

• H. Pfeiffer 
• Copper engraving 
• Print signature 
• Portret 

Portrait of Conrad Gessner (1516-1565). Gessner was a Swiss naturalist, philologist and physician. Because of his work Historiae animalium, he is seen as the founder of zoology. He was also an influential botanist. Etching and engraving by H. Pfeiffer, after an unknown painter. Made around 1790.

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