SPECIES SEEN IN AUSTRALIA, 1770

Limited to 116 impressions, this no. VIII of 10 hors de commerce and numbered ‘HC VIII/X’

This is one of ten prints featured in our virtual exhibition ‘Joseph Banks: A Lincolnshire Botanist in Australia’. The engravings are all of a very similar size, with platemarks of circa 457 x 305mm, and are printed on acid-free Somerset mould-made 300gsm paper manufactured by the Inveresk Paper Company. Each sheet is watermarked ‘AHE’, measures 724 x 556mm, and bears blind embossed stamps incorporating the publishers’ and printer’s chops, the copyright symbol, and date of publication; the initials of the individual printer, the plate number, and the edition number are recorded in pencil. The engravings are protected by a bifolium of acid-free Somerset mould-made 300gsm paper, cut to form a window mount on which is recorded the modern and Banksian names of the plant, the location and date of its collection and the name(s) of the artist and engraver.

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