Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9512
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Portrait of Joseph Banks
Date
19th century
Sitter
Joseph Banks (1743 - 1820, British) , Naturalist
Creator
Charles Edward Wagstaff (1808 - 1850, British) , Engraver
After
Thomas Phillips (1770 - 1845, British) , Painter
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 284mm
width (print): 189mm
width (print): 189mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Detail from Royal Society’s portrait of Banks, seated in the Presidential chair surmounted by the Society’s coat of arms and wearing the ribbon and star of the Order of Bath.
Inscribed: “Engraved by C.E.Wagstaff. SIR J.BANKS. From a Picture by T.Phillips, in the possession of the Royal Society. Under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. London. Published by Charles Knight, Pall Mall East.” Inscribed in pencil lower left “1766”.
Sir Joseph Banks was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1766, he served as its President from 1778 to 1820.
Inscribed: “Engraved by C.E.Wagstaff. SIR J.BANKS. From a Picture by T.Phillips, in the possession of the Royal Society. Under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. London. Published by Charles Knight, Pall Mall East.” Inscribed in pencil lower left “1766”.
Sir Joseph Banks was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1766, he served as its President from 1778 to 1820.
Object history
Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.9. J.P.Gassiot Collection, purchased 1878.
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