Portrait of Sydney Parkinson (1740-1771) mb-code 1646081 Circa September 1993

Circa September 1993

Inscribed below the image: 'WILSON & BEADELL

wearing plumes on his head and loose dress with a dog at his feet

men breaking stones and horses and carts in the street

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

Portrait of Sydney Parkinson (1740-1771) mb-code 1646081 Circa September 1993Portrait 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