Germany's Famous Authors: Portrait of Johann Elert Bode

Gustav Karl Friedrich Lüderitz

Cleveland Museum of Art

Black and white portrait of an older man with light-colored hair sitting at a desk, holding papers; he wears a dark jacket with a white shirt and bow tie. The man sits in front of a globe. The image has a white border around it and is on a page with a blue spine on the left and a red, black, and green patterned edge on the right. There are spots on the white border. The name "J. Bode" appears below the image.