• Title
  Intaglio portrait of Sir Joseph Banks, ca. 1780
• Call number
  PM 156
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1780
• Type of material
  Objects
• Reference code
  887577
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 intaglio - chalcedony - oval 2.4 x 2 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Sir Joseph Banks (1743–1820) was President of the Royal Society from 1778 until his death in 1820.
  
  Reference:
  Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online Edition - http://www.oxforddnb.com/ (accessed 10 March 2010)
• Scope and Content
  A head and shoulders portrait, hand cut into chalcedony, of Sir Joseph Banks dressed in his robes as President of the Royal Society
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1014698
• Date note
  
  Dated by Senior Curator, Mitchell Library, 2009
  
  Reference:
  Library correspondence file
• Name
  Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820
  
• Subject
  Naturalists--Great Britain.
  Intaglios
  Portraits on gems--Great Britain
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE151638

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