Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12155

    Portrait of Joseph Banks

    Date
    1819
    Sitter
    Joseph Banks (1743 - 1820, British) , Botanist
    After
    P J Stucci, Medallist
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 224mm
    width (print): 152mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Joseph Banks in left profile, after a medallion. In a circular frame.

    Inscribed ‘Sr. Josh. BANKS BART.. 18[?]9. FROM A MEDAL BY P J STRUCCI.’

    Sir Joseph Banks was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1766 and was President from 1778 until 1820.

    Provenance: Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.8
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