Proposing a different kind of investment: in your own pleasure, to feed
your imagination, and satisfy your curiosity...
Nick Gallop
Friday 14th May @ 6pm - Zoom Talk - Captain Cook's first Voyage & Joseph
Bank's botanical discoveries given by Joe Studholme
On the *Endeavour's* return to England in 1771, Banks determined to produce
a grand publication of the botanical material and over the next thirteen
years he employed eighteen engravers to create 743 copper plate line
engravings of the plants new to European botany.
By 1784 all was complete, but for a variety of reasons Banks delayed
publication and when he died in 1820 his collections, including the
material from the *Endeavour* voyage, were bequeathed to the British Museum.
In the late 1970s Joe Studholme came upon the plates, still unpublished and
wrapped in their 18th century paper, in a cupboard in the Botany Department
of the Natural History Museum.
Joe will tell the story of Cook's epic voyage in the 18th century and of
the first publication of the plates by his company, Editions Alecto, two
hundred years later.
Tickets £10 per household
Attached are the details of how to obtain a ticket to this fascinating talk
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think might enjoy it - we very much hope you can join us.
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