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Woburn Sheepshearing, 1811
Thomas Morris, M N. Bates, Joseph C. Stadler after George Garrard
Portrait, aquatint with stipple and etching and engraving, hand coloured on chine colle on paper laid down on cotton stretched over wooden strainer
Purchased 2018
Sir Joseph Banks KCB
Biography
Joseph Banks KCB (1743-1820), naturalist, grew up on his father's Lincolnshire estate, Revesby, but his lifelong interest in botany developed at Eton and Oxford.
13 portraits in the collection
The great South Sea caterpillar transformed into a Bath Butterfly (Sir Joseph Banks), 1795 (printed 1851)
James Gillray
Portrait, etching, hand coloured on paper
Gift of Douglas Stewart Fine Books 2013
Portrait of Sir Joseph Banks, c. 1814
Thomas Phillips
Portrait, oil on canvas
Purchased 2011
Sir Joseph Banks, 1802
William Ridley
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Gina and Ted Gregg 2010
The Fly Catching Macaroni (Sir Joseph Banks), 1772
Matthias Darly
Portrait, etching on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
The Botanic Macaroni (Sir Joseph Banks), 1772
Matthias Darly
Portrait, etching on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
In a good paddock
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2011
Celebrating a new painted portrait of Joseph Banks, Sarah Engledow spins a yarn of the naturalist, the first kangaroo in France and Don, a Spanish ram.
Portrait of Sir Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society, 1812
N Schiavonetti after Thomas Phillips
Portrait, line engraving on paper
Purchased 2010
Sir Joseph Banks, 1840s
C E. Wagstaff after Thomas Phillips
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Gina and Ted Gregg 2010
Joseph Banks Esq, 1774
William Dickinson after Sir Joshua Reynolds
Portrait, mezzotint on paper
Purchased 2008
Sir Joseph Banks, 1811
William Daniell after George Dance
Portrait, soft ground etching on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2014
The Bath Butterfly
About Face article
The caricaturist and engraver James Gillray's biting satires about Sir Joseph Banks.
The medallion
About Face article
In recent years I have become fascinated by the so-called Sydney Cove Medallion (1789), a work of art that bridges the 10,000-mile gap between the newly established penal settlement at Port Jackson and the beating heart of Enlightenment England.
Sir Joseph Banks, c. 1788
John Raphael Smith after Sir Benjamin West
Portrait, mezzotint on paper
Purchased 2010
Joseph Banks and Dr Solander, 1778
an unknown artist after Wedgewood
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Gina and Ted Gregg 2010