John Foster (printer)
John Foster (1648–1681) was the earliest American engraver and the first Boston printer.
Legacy[]
After a while I came to look on Foster as one of the great men of that great age, — a scholar, a thinker, a printer, engraver, chemist, — a man worthy of the love, friendship, and admiration of the Mathers. Had Foster lived to that age that Franklin reached, Franklin might have been called a 'second Foster.'
Richard Holman explains that Foster's frustration with the bad quality of Cambridge printer Samuel Green on Foster's almanac during 1675 prompted him to give it a try as printer. Holman adds "perhaps Foster looked at the title page and decided that a bright Harvard man could certainly do better."[1]
An engraved portrait by Foster was featured on one of the stamps in the U.S. Postal Service's 1998 "Four Centuries of American Art" series.[2]
References[]
- ^ Roark, Elisabeth Louise (2003). Artists of Colonial America. Greenwood. pp. 19–32.
- ^ 1998 32c Four Centuries of American Art, Sheet of 20 Scott 3236 Mint F/VF NH, HipStamp (Sept. 15, 2020) https://www.hipstamp.com/listing/1998-32c-four-centuries-of-american-art-sheet-of-20-scott-3236-mint-f-vf-nh/31887294/
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