Jacques Burkhardt

Jacques Burkhardt
Born(1808-11-18)November 18, 1808
Burgdorf, Switzerland
DiedFebruary 20, 1867(1867-02-20) (aged 58)
Boston, Massachusetts, US
OccupationsArtist, scientific illustrator
EmployerLouis Agassiz
Known forThayer Expedition

Jacques Burkhardt (November 18, 1808 – February 20, 1867) was a Swiss scientific illustrator. In 1865, he joined Harvard naturalist Louis Agassiz's Thayer Expedition to Brazil, where he produced hundreds of sketches and watercolors of Brazilian fish and other fauna. The Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University holds most of Burkhardt's illustrations, which have been digitized and made freely available online.

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