• Title
  Forster the botanist, [ca. 1800 / portrait medallion by Wedgwood, from a model by Joachim Smith]
• Creator
  Josiah Wedgwood & Sons
• Call number
  DL Pa 92
  Status: On display. Objects Gallery. Case 3, Shelf 48
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1800
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Objects
• Reference code
  442302
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 portrait medallion - White on green dip jasper ware medallion, housed in gilt frame with design of a ribbon at centre top that forms loop for hanging - 12.2 x 9.5 cm (image) ; 14.4 x 10.2 cm (frame)
  
• Scope and Content
  Head and shoulders right profile of Johann Reinhold Forster with hair loosely tied with a ribbon, with leaf and flowers [Forstera Sedifolia] above chest.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Two white on blue jasper medallion portraits of Johann Reinhold Forster are held in the Mitchell Library (P*56 and P*60).
  
  Attributed and dated from comparison with the portrait medallion at P*60.
  Digital order no:a5144001
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  In gold text beneath image, "Forster the botanist"
  "Wedgwood" impressed on reverse.
  Handwritten on reverse, "Forster / Botanist to Cook's 2nd / Voyages who also wrote a / narrative ...."
  "M / 18?" [or 16 or 11] and framing directions in pencil on reverse.
• Date note
  
  Date taken from "Heads of illustrious moderns" : Wedgwood portrait medallions. / Catalogue written by L. Richard Smith ; exhibition researched and selected by Alan Landis and L. Richard Smith. Sydney : Library Council of New South Wales, 1985
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Smith, Joachim, ca. 1737-1814
  
• Name
  Forster, Johann Reinhold, 1729-1798
  
• Subject
  Dixson Library (N.S.W.)
  Wedgwood ware
  Jasperware
  Portrait medallions--England
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  botanists
  medallions
  portraits
  zoologists
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Style - Powerhouse Museum
  Heads of illustrious moderns : Wedgwood portrait medallions - State Library of New South Wales
  Pieces of Wedgwood - State Library of New South Wales
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3322733

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