Jordan Goodman - Planting the World: Joseph Banks and his Collectors: An Adventurous History of Botany

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Jordan Goodman is Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at University College London. He is the author of The Rattlesnake: A Voyage of Discovery to the Coral Sea, The Devil and Mr Casement and Paul Robeson: A Watched Man. He has published extensively on the history of medicine and science, and cultural and economic history.

I envy you your situation within two miles of an Erupting Volcano you will easily guess I read your Letters with that Kind of Fidgetty anziety which continuously upbraids me for not being in a similar Situation I envy you I pity myself I blame myself & then begin to tumble over my Dried Plants in hopes to put such wishes out of my head which now I am tied by the leg to an armchair I must with diligence suppress

Joseph Banks to William Hamilton, 4 December 1778

Joseph Banks, oil portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence, after 1795.

Archibald Menzies, oil portrait by E.U. Eddis, 1836.

Francis Masson, oil portrait by George Garrard, 1887.

John and Alexander Duncan.

Allan Cunningham, oil portrait, c.1835.

Portrait of Sir John Barrow (17641848).

Matthew Flinders, c.1800, watercolour miniature portrait.

Captain William Bligh.

Robert Brown. Line engraving by C. Fox, 1837, after H.W. Pickersgill.

George Macartney and George Staunton. Pencil, pen and ink, wash and watercolours. Images taken from Album of 372 Drawings of Landscapes, Coastlines, Costumes and Everyday Life Made during Lord Macartneys Embassy to the Emperor of China. Originally published/produced in 179294.

Daniel Charles Solander. Lithograph by Miss Turner after J. Zoffany.

Arthur Phillip, oil portrait, 1786, by Francis Wheatley.

Drawing of a flat peach made in Canton by John Bradby Blake and Mok Sau c.1773.

Sketch by William Bligh of the plant nursery on HMS Bounty, 1787.

Sketch of plant cabin on HMS Guardian, 1789.

The mutineers turning Lieutenant Bligh and part of the officers and crew adrift from HMS Bounty, painted and engraved by Robert Dodd, 1796.

HMS Providence and HMS Assistant at the Lizard, 1791, watercolour by Lieutenant George Tobin.

William Alexanders watercolour drawing of an opuntia and cochineal from Rio de Janeiro, 1792.

Breadfruit, 1792, watercolour by Lieutenant George Tobin.

White peony by an unknown Chinese artist, c.17946.

A view of Funchal, Madeira, oil painting by William Hodges (174497).

Transplanting of the bread fruit trees from Otaheite, painting by Thomas Gosse, 1796.

The library at the home of Joseph Banks, Soho Square, undated drawing attributed to Ralph Lucas (17961874).

Kew Gardens: the Pagoda and Bridge, 1762, oil painting by Richard Wilson.

Cape Town, 1791, watercolour by Lieutenant George Tobin.