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Johann Reinhold Forster

Johann Friedrich Bause, Anton Graff

Johann Reinhold Forster

1780

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Johann Friedrich Bause, Anton Graff

Johann Reinhold Forster

1780

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet: 290 × 215 mm. (11 7/16 × 8 7/16 in.) Plate: 275 × 195 mm. (10 13/16 × 7 11/16 in.) Image: 255 × 180 mm. (10 1/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1984.81.4405
Forster (1729-1798) was a Calvinist pastor and naturalist who accompanied James Cook's second expedition (1772-1775). Part of a series of engravings Bause made after Graff's portraits.

Inscribed: Recto: in plate: " I. R. Forster"; "Ant Graff pinx / zu finden in Leipzig bey Bause / I. F. Bause sculps Lips 1781"; "Diese Pflantze in nehmlicher Größe hat Herr Prof. Forster in Neu Seeland entdeckt, und Linne ihm su Ehren / Forstera benennt"

Markings: CM: Claghorn

Artist

Johann Friedrich Bause

German, 1738-1814
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Artist

Anton Graff

Swiss, 1736-1813
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