Portrait of Joseph Banks (1743-1820) Product:Canvas View with a figure sitting

View with a figure sitting on the ground

and had exposed to view

The telescope was tested at the Grubb works before being sent to the Melbourne Observatory

'The Hampton Hydra'

Portrait of Joseph Banks (1743-1820) Product:Canvas View with a figure sittingHalf length portrait of Banks, seated in the Royal Society's Presidential chair surmounted by its coat of arms, looking directly to the viewer in imposing style. Banks wears a black coat with white lining over a white shirt and embroidered waistcoat; over the coat, the red ribbon and star of the Order of Bath. On a table before Banks is a red tasselled mace cushion with the Society's Charles II mace in front and the Society's George III silver