Portrait of Sydney Parkinson (1740-1771) mb-code 1646081 offers him an inscribed stick

offers him an inscribed stick and a bribe of money

Showing figures on horseback either side of the City's coat of arms in the foreground

Circa September 1993

the blind Postmaster General

men breaking stones and horses and carts in the street

Portrait of Sydney Parkinson (1740-1771) mb-code 1646081 offers him an inscribed stickPortrait of Sydney Parkinson, Joseph Banks's botanical illustrator on the Endeavour voyage to the Pacific in 1768, under Lieutenant James Cook. Parkinson died in 1771 on the voyage home. Frontispiece to A journal of a voyage to the South Seas, in His Majesty's ship, The Endeavour, by Sydney Parkinson (London, 1773), which was published posthumously. Original: engraving. 1773