Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21007

    Portrait of Joseph Banks

    Date
    1801
    Sitter
    Joseph Banks (1695 - 1741, British) , Botanist
    Creator
    K Mackenzie, Engraver
    Object type
    Library reference
    9183
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 210mm
    width (print): 128mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Botany
    Description
    Head and shoulders portrait of Joseph Banks, head turned to the left as viewed. Banks wears a short wig, with dark coat and waistcoat buttoned to the neck.

    Frontispiece to The Philosophical Magazine…[edited] by Alexander Tilloch, v.8, (1800-1801).

    Inscribed above: ‘Engraved for the Philosophical Magazine Vol VIII. Inscribed below, ‘The Right Honble. Sir Joseph Banks Bart. P.R.S. Engd. By K. Mackenzie from an Original Portrait in the possession of M. Garthshore M.D. F.R.S.’

    Joseph Banks (1743-1820), British botanist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1766, and was President from 1778 until 1820.
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