![[Three Levantine Heads] To Joseph Banks Esq.r President of the Royal Society.](jpegs/53965.jpg)
[Three Levantine Heads] To Joseph Banks Esq.r President of the Royal Society.this Print is humbly Inscribed, by His much obliged and most obedient servant, R. Blyth.
Drawn by J. H. Mortimer. Etch'd by R. Blyth. London Publish'd as the Act directs, March 6th 1780 by R. Blyth N.o 27 Great Castle Street, Cavendish Square.
London, 1780.
Etching. 355 x 330mm (14 x 13"), with wide margins. Repaired tear and crease in left margin.
Three heads in a roundel; the first man wears a turban and elaborately tassled garb, the woman also looks richly dressed in a headband and jewellery. The man in the middle looks to be wearing a helmet. Joseph Banks was a notable patron of natural sciences and was a leading member of the Society of Dilettanti, which helped to found the Royal Academy. He was elected president of the Royal Society in 1778, a position he held for forty one years.
[Ref: 53965] £260.00
London, 1780.
Etching. 355 x 330mm (14 x 13"), with wide margins. Repaired tear and crease in left margin.
Three heads in a roundel; the first man wears a turban and elaborately tassled garb, the woman also looks richly dressed in a headband and jewellery. The man in the middle looks to be wearing a helmet. Joseph Banks was a notable patron of natural sciences and was a leading member of the Society of Dilettanti, which helped to found the Royal Academy. He was elected president of the Royal Society in 1778, a position he held for forty one years.
[Ref: 53965] £260.00