Portrait of Joseph Banks (1743-1820) Size:L: 100 x 50cm Punch reports that

Punch reports that

The work has a scale

Alexandrum van Megen

One of eight mirror paintings depicting marital scenes

Kensington

Portrait of Joseph Banks (1743-1820) Size:L: 100 x 50cm Punch reports thatDetail 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