• Title
  Joseph Banks [ca. 1780s / a Wedgwood portrait medallion from a model by John Flaxman]
• Creator
  John Flaxman, 1755-1826
• Call number
  DL Pa 100
  Status: On display. Objects Gallery. Case 3, Shelf 48
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1780s
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Objects
• Reference code
  457679
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Objects - 1 white on blue jasper ware medallion, stored in oval shaped gilt metal frame. - 9.3 x 7.3 cm frame at widest point, 8 x 6 cm (image)
  
• Scope and Content
  The portrait depicts in relief a head and shoulders left profile of Joseph Banks as a young man
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Based on a portrait of Sir Joseph Banks that was modelled by John Flaxman between 1775-1779, it is difficult to assign a specific date to the medallion as several issues were made over a period of time. Date and attribution based on references in W.G. Constable, "John Flaxman 1755-1826", London, 1927, p. 15. SRL DS735/21. "Notes and records of the Royal Society of London", Vol. 18, no. 1, p. 49. SRL N506/160. "Wedgwood and his works ", Eliza Meteyard, London, 1873, p. 57. SRL DSQ666.342/22. "The Wedgwood handbook ", Eliza Meteyard, London, 1875, p. 190. SRL DS666.342/14. John Flaxman worked for Josiah Wedgwood between 1775 and 1787, and Wedgwood was in partnership with Thomas Bentley from 1769 to Bentley's death in 1780. The impression of "WEDGWOOD" was used after Bentley's death. The medallion is similar to portraits of Joseph Banks held in the Mitchell Library (P*33 black basalt ware; P*61 and P*35) and those located in the Dixson Library (DL Pa 99 and DL Pa 97). Slight crack to right of portrait.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Wedgwood impressed on reverse of plaque. Title not impressed below portrait but written in pencil on back.
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Bentley, Thomas, 1731-1780
  Flaxman, John, 1755-1826
  Wedgwood, Josiah, 1730-1795
  
• Name
  Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820
  
• Topic
  botanists
  medallions
  naturalists
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Wedgwood Exhibition - (August - September, 1979)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8799200

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