Written on Tuesday 25th February 2014
Joseph Banks, A Great Endeavour - a LincolnshireGentleman and his Legacy
15 Feb 2014 - 11 May 2014
An exciting exhibition about Joseph Banks, a passionate botanist andexplorer who joined James Cook aboard the Endeavour to explore uncharted lands.
The exhibition will centre on Benjamin West's portraitof the explorer, surrounded by artefacts he brought back to England,after he accompanied James Cook on his first Pacific Ocean voyage aboard theEndeavour between 1768 and 1771. The exhibition tracks the route and stoppingpoints of the Endeavour, bringing together original drawings, engravings anddocuments with ethnographic objects, natural history specimens and scientificinstruments used, collected and made at each stage of the journey, and it is thefirst time that many of these objects have been brought together sincethey were collected.
Artefacts include a flax cloak from New Zealandand a headdress from Tahiti, as well as original drawings andsketches, made by the artists who accompanied Banks, of the people,plants and animals that they saw on the journey. Much of the material willrarely have been seen in Lincolnshire before, and this is a great opportunityfor it to be seen together. The material is loaned from many museums acrossthe country, including the British Library, the British Museum and the PittRivers Museum, Oxford.
Discover how this Lincolnshire figure capturedthe world's imagination.
The exhibition has been made possible by a grant fromthe Heritage Lottery Fund of almost ?140,000.
Courtesy of: http://www.thecollectionmuseum.com/?/exhibitions-and-events/view/joseph-banks-a-great-endeavour-a-lincolnshire-gentleman-and-his-legacy
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