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Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel / nach dem Gemälde von Wolf, gestochen von Mandel. – Vintage Print

Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel / nach dem Gemälde von Wolf, gestochen von Mandel., [1898] — historic print
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel / nach dem Gemälde von Wolf, gestochen von Mandel., [1898]. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic print captures Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel / nach dem Gemälde von Wolf, gestochen von Mandel. in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel / nach dem Gemälde von Wolf, gestochen von Mandel.

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Bessel's 1898 likeness comes from *Das neunzehnte Jahrhundert in Bildnissen*, a German series of nineteenth-century portraits edited by Karl Werckmeister, where it appears as number 84 in the first volume. The image reproduces a painting by Wolf, engraved by Mandel, and the halftone process let the publisher print it cheaply in a book. The sitter, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784-1846), was an astronomer and mathematician who directed the Königsberg observatory. In 1838 he made the first reliable measurement of a star's distance, that of 61 Cygni, by stellar parallax, and his work on the functions that bear his name remains standard in physics and engineering.

Created / published[1898]
Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone.
GenrePortraits 1890-1900.Book illustrations 1890-1900.Halftone photomechanical prints 1890-1900.
NotesIllus. in: Das neunzehnte Jahrhundert in Bildnissen / Werckmeister, Karl, ed. Berlin: Kunstverlag der photographische gesellschaft, 1898, vol. I, no. 84. Reference copy in BIOG FILE - Bessel Friedrich Wilhelm.
SubjectsBessel, F. W. (Friedrich Wilhelm),--1784-1846.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,289 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-177619

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