File:The great south sea caterpillar, transform'd into a Bath butterfly.jpg
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English: This is an image of a 1795 cartoon entitled The great south sea caterpillar, transform'd into a Bath butterfly.
Cartoon shows the metamorphosis of Sir Joseph Banks from a caterpillar to a butterfly upon his investiture with the Order of the Bath as a result of his South Sea expedition. Draped with the ribbon, and wearing the jewel, of Bath, he rises, chrysalis shaped, from the mudflats on butterfly wings emblazoned with sea creatures towards a radiant sun enclosing a crown. MEDIUM: 1 print : etching, hand-colored. CREATED/PUBLISHED: [London] : Pubd. by H. Humphrey, 1795 July 4th. |
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Source | Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-USZC4-8780 (color film copy transparency), archival TIFF version (49 MB), rotated, cropped, and converted to JPEG with the GIMP 2.4.6, image quality 88. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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06:19, 18 September 2006 | 421 × 583 (53 KB) | Hesperian (talk | contribs) | == Summary == {{Information |Description=This is an image of a 1795 cartoon entitled ''The great south sea caterpillar, transform'd into a Bath butterfly''. It caricatures Sir Joseph Banks. |Source=The image from which this image was obtained is avail |
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