Johann Forster, 1495-1556 – Vintage Print
![Johann Forster, 1495-1556, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/46/468c4f9feff0-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Johann Forster, 1495-1556 comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Johann Forster, 1495-1556
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The sitter here is Johann Forster, whose lifespan of 1495 to 1556 is given in the title, a German scholar of Hebrew who taught at Wittenberg in the circle of Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon. That association places him among the Protestant humanists who worked to recover the Hebrew scriptures and make them available to students and clergy in the sixteenth century. The record does not give a date or the engraver, so the print's age and maker remain uncertain. Even so, the portrait form of the engraving reflects how scholars of this period were often commemorated, with their likenesses circulated in books and as single sheets.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Shelf. Sources checked: LC/MUMS. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,175 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-156968 |
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