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The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks 1768–1771 [Volume Two]

Colour Plates

Colour Plates

I. Kangaroo frontispiece
Oil on panel, 23 1/4 by 27 1/2 in., signed ‘Geo.Stubbs’. George Stubbs (1724-1806), the greatest of English animal painters, must have painted this picture for Banks in 1771 or 1772, from a stuffed or blown-up skin. It was exhibited at the Society of Artists’ show in 1773 (‘318. A Portrait of the Kongouro from New Holland, 1770’) and was engraved in reverse for Hawkes-worth's Voyages, Vol. III, pl. 20. After Banks's death it passed to the Knatchbull family, and is now in the possession of Mrs W. P. Keith, by whose kind permission it is reproduced.
II. Kennedya rubicunda Vent. Red Bean facing p. 62
Australia II, 85. 42–9 × 26.3 cm. Unsigned, but the accompanying lithograph gives ‘F. P. Nodder pinxit 1777’. There is a pencil inscription in Banks's hand, ‘This is in Flower at his Majestys Garden The First Production of That Climate that has yet Flowerd in England Decr 9 [?] 1790’. The title is in a different hand. A pencil note on the back of the unfinished drawing reads, ‘The petala blood colour & deep purple at the base the hind part of the vexillum very pale. the leaves on the upper side grass green vein'd wt lighter. below more Glaucus & very hairy with prominent veins of paler colour the stalks calyx & buds hairy’; and a note in ink, ‘Botany Bay’.
III. Banksia serrata Linn.f. Red Honeysuckle facing p. 110
Australia VII, 326. 46.7 × 31.5 cm. Signed ‘John Frederick Miller pinxt 1773.’ On the back is a pencil note, ‘Leucadendron serratum’. On the back of the unfinished drawing are the pencil notes, ‘Mem. the space below the flowers to be fill'd up wt dark colour.’; ‘Leucad serratum’; and ‘Botany Bay’. page break
IV. Hibiscus radiatus Cav facing p. 126
Australia I, 24. 42.1 × 27.3 cm. Signed at lower left ‘Fredk Polydore Nodder. Pinxt 1778’. On the back of the unfinished drawing are the pencil notes, ‘The flower white wt a cast of citron colour at the bottom of each petala deep crimson on the outside pale the stamina and stile dark red purple the parts mark'd × are stain'd wt carmine’, and ‘Hibiscus scabrosus’; and in ink, ‘Cape Grafton’.
V. Castanospermum australe A. Cunn. Black Bean facing p. 206
Australia II, 95. 45.2 × 28.8 cm. Signed ‘Fredk Polydore Nodder: Pinxt 1779’. The unfinished drawing has on the back the note, ‘The vexillum first laid over wt yellow then stain'd & spinkled wt scarlet. the rest of the flower scarlet calyx deep buff colour ting'd at the base wt green the buds the same colour but somewhat more green. the leaves above grass green wt light veins—the under side more Glaucus wt dark veins stalk sordid brown. capsula grass green.’ In ink, ‘Endeavours River’. The engraving has the names in pencil ‘Sophora caudiciflora’ and ‘Castanospermum australe A.Cunn.’
VI. Ficus glomerata Willd. Cluster Fig facing p. 222
Australia VII, 361. Size of sheet 54.7 × 34.9 cm. (The sheet is unmounted; the left edge has been mutilated and repaired.) Signed ‘Fredk Polydore Nodder, Pinxt 1782’. There is a pencil note on the back, ‘Ficus caudiciflora’; and one in ink, ‘Endeavours River’. The pencil note at the bottom of the drawing, ‘Ficus glomerata Roxb. ex Hien in Journ. Bot. 1901, 4.’ is probably by Britten. This drawing was not engraved.