Portrait of Joseph Banks (1743-1820) Size:XL: 120 x 60cm 1011x1188mm

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North-east view of the Church of St Botolph Aldersgate

Showing the delivery of the City Sword at Temple Bar

This came about in part as a result of the growing outrage at the over-filled and terrible urban graveyards that polluted air and soil

Portrait of Joseph Banks (1743-1820) Size:XL: 120 x 60cm 1011x1188mmDetail 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