• Title
  [Johann Reinhold Forster, ca. 1775 / portrait medallion by Wedgwood and Bentley]
• Creator
  Joachim Smith, ca. 1737-1814
• Call number
  P*56
  Status: On display. Objects Gallery. Case 3, Shelf 47
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1775
• Type of material
  Objects
• Reference code
  442298
• Physical Description
  1 medallion - 1 white on blue jasper ware medallion, housed in deeply set dark brown wooden frame - 10.7 x 7.6 cm. (image, sight) ; 15.7 x 12.5 x 4.7 cm. (frame)
  
• Scope and Content
  Head and shoulders profile of man with hair loosely tied with a ribbon, facing to the right.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• General note
  
  Dated, titled, and attributed from comparison with another medallion portrait of Johann Reinhold Forster in the Mitchell Library collection located at P*60.
  On a paper label on reverse of frame in ink, "(From A.Lee Coll.) / Purchased 1955".
  This item is listed in The Public Library of New South Wales : report of the Public Library of New South Wales for year ended 20 June 1956. A.H. Pettifer, Government Printer, Sydney, 1956.
  A similar portrait medallion of Johann Reinhold Forster, though white on green dip jasper ware with a sprig of foliage, is located in the Dixson Library collection at DL Pa 92.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Wedgwood impressed on reverse.
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Bentley, Thomas, 1731-1780
  Wedgwood, Josiah, 1730-1795
  
• Name
  Forster, Johann Reinhold, 1729-1798
  
• Topic
  botanists
  medallions
  naturalists
  portraits
  zoologists
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20791661

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