Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Mai (Omai), Sir Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander NPG 6652

© National Portrait Gallery, London / National Museum Cardiff / Captain Cook Memorial Museum, Whitby

by William Parry

Parry’s group portrait presents a realistic likeness of Omai, in a domestic setting, among the people who shaped his experience of Britain - Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander. Solander, Banks’ librarian and Keeper of Natural History at the British Museum, is seated taking notes while Banks, the scientist and entrepreneur, discourses upon Omai.
Parry’s conversation piece format, though grandly conceived, seems to celebrate the eighteenth-century principle of equality and collaboration in the pursuit of knowledge.

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Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.