Portrait of Joseph Banks (1743-1820) Size:L: 100 x 50cm 6th February 1980

6th February 1980

Kensington

Punch reports that

The British People are traditionally a sea-fairing race

One of eight mirror paintings depicting marital scenes

Portrait of Joseph Banks (1743-1820) Size:L: 100 x 50cm 6th February 1980Detail 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