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Sir Joseph Banks at dinner
Title
[Sir Joseph Banks at dinner] [graphic].
Publication
[London] : [publisher not identified], [1788]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet 19 x 25.1 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title from British Museum catalogue.
Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego.
Date of publication based on that of the volume in which the print appears.
Frontispiece to: Pindar, P. Peter's prophecy, or, The president and poet ... London : Printed by G. Kearsley ..., [1788]
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance
From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Summary
"Five ugly and elderly members of the Royal Society are seated in arm-chairs at a rectangular dinner-table. A footman (right) is about to place on the table a dish containing an alligator. The head of a strange horned beast is the chief dish on the table; there is also a frog on a plate. Banks (left) gnaws a serpent which he holds in both hands. The two walls of the room are closely covered with stuffed specimens and butterflies, insects, &c, in cases. The former include a sow, a goose, three owls, a deformed human skeleton. Two dogs gnaw bones."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 06, 2016
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6, no. 7431
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 192-193
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1788.
Frontispieces.
Book illustrations.
Etchings - England - London - 1788.
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