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Presumed portrait of Pehr Kalm

Left: oil portrait painted in 1764, and presumed representation of Pehr Kalm holding a pinecone in his right hand. Right: Cover of a recent translation of the book "Voyage de Pehr Kalm au Canada en 1749".

Left: reproduction of a painting: National Museum of Finland, Helsinki.

Right: Cover of the book Voyage de Pehr Kalm au Canada en 1749. Traduction annotée du journal de route de Pehr Kalm (The voyage of Pehr Kalm in Canada in 1749. An annotated translation of the travel journal of Pehr Kalm) by Jacques Rousseau and Guy Béthune in conjunction with Pierre Morisset. Published by: Pierre Tisseyre, Montreal, 1977.

To the left: an oil portrait, presumed to be a representation of Pehr Kalm, painted in 1764 by J. G. Geitel, drawing professor at the Åbo Akademi, a Swedish-speaking Finnish university, located in the city of Turku. Some researchers believe the painting to be a representation not of Pehr Kalm, but of his friend Pehr Gadd.

On the right side: cover of the book Voyage de Pehr Kalm au Canada en 1749. Traduction annotée du journal de route de Pehr Kalm (The voyage of Pehr Kalm in Canada in 1749. An annotated translation of the travel journal of Pehr Kalm) by Jacques Rousseau and Guy Béthune in conjunction with Pierre Morisset.