Georg Forster
The South Seas at Wörlitz. Kulturstiftung Dessau-Wörlitz
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14904507 |
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| Authors | Jeremy Coote (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 201-203 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-05 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the History of Collections (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0954-6650 • E-ISSN: 1477-8564 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jhc/fhab033 |
| OpenAlex | W3194981470 |
| Language | EN |
Following a four-hour visit to the British Museum, Prince Leopold Friedrich Franz of Anhalt-Dessau and his wife, Louise Henriette Wilhelmine of Brandenburg-Schwedt, spent the afternoon of Monday 2 October 1775 with Johann Reinhold Forster and his son Georg Forster at their rooms in Percy Street, off Tottenham Court Road. It was only two months since the Forsters had arrived back in London after a three-year-long voyage aboard hms Resolution as the official Admiralty-appointed naturalists on Captain James Cook’s second famous voyage of discovery (1772–5), so they were able to refresh their visitors with wine from the Cape of Good Hope and to entertain them with an account of their travels, illustrated by Georg’s drawings and paintings, and a sight of some of the ‘curiosities’ – both natural and ‘artificial’ – that they had brought back. When their visitors took their leave, the Forsters presented the prince with a collection of...
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Painting · Sight · Theology · Wife · Central European and Russian historical studies · Historical Architecture and Urbanism · Historical Art and Culture Studies · History · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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