Joseph Banks, 1775 / portrait medallion by Wedgwood
Joseph Banks, 1775 / portrait medallion by Wedgwood
About this item
Full title
Date
1775
Call Numbers
DL Pa 99 , Status: On display - The Collectors’ Gallery, Case 3, Shelf 55
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
Objects - 9.6 x 7.3 cm. (portrait) ; 16 x 14.3 x 3 cm. (frame) - 1 white on blue jasper ware medallion, dipped darker blue, with two holes on the back, housed in deeply set oval shaped gilt wooden frame with glass front, gilt inner rim and wooden mount, and ring on back for hanging
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Level of description
Fonds
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Copying Conditions
Out of copyright
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Issue Copy
Digitised
Subjects
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Scope and Contents
Contents
The relief portrait features the left profile of Joseph Banks.
Alternative Titles
Full title
Joseph Banks, 1775 / portrait medallion by Wedgwood
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Artists
Notes
General note
The portrait of Sir Joseph Banks was first modelled by John Flaxman Jnr. between 1775-1779. It is difficult to assign specific dates to the medallions as several issues were made over a period of time.
The portrait is cracked from the neck down.
The medallion is similar to one held in the Dixson Galleries collection (DL Pa 100) and several in...
Signature / Inscriptions
"Wedgwood" impressed on back.
Titled and dated from ink inscription on paper label affixed to back of medallion, "Joseph Banks Baronet 1781 / by Flaxman in 1775".
"date / 1777/1795 / 12140" in ink on reverse of medallion.
Etched on back of wooden frame three times then written over in ink, "IX"
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
DL Pa 99 , Status: On display - The Collectors’ Gallery, Case 3, Shelf 55
Record Identifier
Yj7dJGl9
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Yj7dJGl9
Other Identifiers
Reference code
442130
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