Johann Friedrich Bause and Anton Graff
Johann Reinhold Forster
1780
Scroll
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
