Sir Joseph Banks and the Emperor of Morocco

Sir Joseph Banks|George Kearsley|Thomas Rowlandson

1788 · Etching · Drawings and Prints

Sir Joseph Banks is shown pursuing a butterfly with a scissor-like net, in a walled garden. He steps over a gardener who lies sprawled on the ground, knocks over pots, and loses his hat which flies off behind. The missing poem (trimmed away here): "Lo down the lane alert the Emp'ror flew. And struck once more Sir Joseph's hawk like view; And now he mounted o'er a garden wall! In rush'd Sir Joseph at the garden door, Knock'd down the Gard'ner-what could man do more, And lest him as he chose to rise or sprawl"

Artist

Sir Joseph Banks|George Kearsley|Thomas Rowlandson

Date

1788

Medium

Etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959