Existing comment:
George Francis Schreiber
Baron von Humboldt
1858
salted paper print
Lorin Blodget was a Smithsonian climate scientist. Humboldt so admired his published work that he wrote a glowing letter commending his research. Blodget was proud of that letter, and even more of this photograph, sent to him by Humboldt. The eighty-eight-year-old Humboldt, still alert and at work, sits with his head cocked, his expression curious.
American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia |