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1818

Memorial Portrait of Carl Philipp Fohr (1795-1818)

Samuel Amsler

German (born Switzerland), 1791 - 1849

Samuel Amsler and Carl Barth, the two artists who collaborated on making this print, also included the initials of its subject, Carl Fohr (1795โ€“1818), a gifted young painter who had drowned in the Tiber River in Rome at the age of twenty-two. The three artistsโ€™ initials are engraved in reverse at lower left: CB / CF / SA.

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