Article ID: CBB001450331

“New Scenes Drawn by the Pencil of Truth“: Joseph Banks' Northern Voyage (2014)

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Bonehill, John (Author)


Journal of Historical Geography
Volume: 43
Pages: 9--27


Publication Date: 2014
Edition Details: Part of a special feature: The Art of Travel and Exploration.
Language: English

In July 1772, the noted naturalist Joseph Banks embarked on an expedition to Iceland, by way of the Western Isles of Scotland on the outward voyage and the Orkneys on the return. This paper explores the roles of drawing in the production and circulation of knowledge during and in the aftermath of Banks' travels, with a particular focus on the depiction of the varied landscapes encountered and recorded. Drawings produced by Banks' draftsmen, John Cleveley and the brothers James and John Frederick Miller, together with the written accounts of others in the party, chart the physical and human geography of the places where the voyagers made landfall on this `Northern Journey' as well as their rich cultural associations. These landscapes and their plants, peoples and structures, whether man-made or natural, were read or appreciated in various ways, not only as objects of aesthetic apprehension but terrains of philosophical and historical enquiry. This material is revealing not only of the way the islands of far north prompted enlightened enquiry but how they were, in turn, seen to be animated by the speculation they occasioned.

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Authors & Contributors
Christina Harrison
Rose, Edwin
Studholme, Joseph
Gooding, Mel
Musgrave, Toby
Wulf, Andrea
Concepts
Botany
Travel; exploration
Scientific illustration
Scientific expeditions
Geography
Biographies
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
Places
Great Britain
Australia
France
Atlantic world
Atlantic Ocean
Jamaica (Caribbean)
Institutions
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Linnean Society of London
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