Sir Joseph Banks
by Natural History Museum, London/science Photo Library
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Sir Joseph Banks
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Natural History Museum, London/science Photo Library
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Photograph - Photograph
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Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), English naturalist and botanist. Banks took part in Captain James Cook's first great voyage (1768-1771). This engraving is after a portrait by English portrait painter Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), and shows Banks wearing the insignia of the Order of the Bath (1795) and states that he is a baronet (Bart, 1781) and President of the Royal Society (PRS, 1778).
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September 11th, 2018
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