Figure 4: “The great south sea caterpillar, transform’d into a Bath butterfly” (1795) by James Gillray.
Featured on PDR in the essay Joseph Banks: Portraits of a Placid Elephant
Patricia Fara traces the changing iconography of Joseph Banks, the English botanist who travelled on Captain Cook's first great voyage and went on to become President of the Royal Society and important patron for a whole host of significant developments in the natural sciences.