title: <div class="fn"> Sydney Parkinson</div>

artist: <bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21595899" class="extiw" title="d:Q21595899">James Newton</a> </bdi>

date: published in 1784

medium: engraving

dimensions: 27 x 22.6 cm

source: NLA-link|nla.obj-136094412

credit: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-136094412">nla.obj-136094412</a>

description: <div class="description"> Portrait of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Parkinson" title="<u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">sydney</u> <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">parkinson</u>"><u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">sydney</u> <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">parkinson</u></a> (1745–1771), botanical artist. It was the frontispiece to <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">parkinson</u>'s <i>Journal of a voyage to the South Seas</i> </div>

title: New Zealand war canoe - Drawings made in the Countries visited by Captain Cook in his First Voyage (1770), f.50 - BL Add MS 23920

artist: <bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Sydney_Parkinson" class="extiw" title="w:en:Sydney Parkinson">Sydney Parkinson</a> </bdi>

date: 1770<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1770-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>

current location: Institution:British Library

source: Image taken from A Collection of Drawings made in the Countries visited by Captain Cook in his First Voyage. 1768-1771. Originally published/produced in 1770. BritishLibraryImageServices|id=059968 |flickr=12459331614 British Library image |url=|ms-shelfmark=Add MS 23920 |cim-msid=|cim-coll=|cim-nstart=|dips=|ms-digi=|hasLicense=yes

credit: This file has been provided by the British Library from its digital collections. <br><small>Catalogue entry: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&amp;frbg=&amp;scp.scps=scope:(BL)&amp;tab=local&amp;srt=rank&amp;ct=search&amp;mode=Basic&amp;dum=true&amp;indx=1&amp;vl(freeText0)=%22Add+MS+23920%22&amp;vid=IAMS_VU2&amp;fn=search">Add MS 23920</a></small>

title: Portrait of a New Zealand man - Drawings made in the Countries visited by Captain Cook in his First Voyage (1769), f.54 - BL Add MS 23920

artist: <bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Sydney_Parkinson" class="extiw" title="w:en:Sydney Parkinson">Sydney Parkinson</a> </bdi>

date: 1769 and 1773

current location: Institution:British Library

source: Image taken from A Collection of Drawings made in the Countries visited by Captain Cook in his First Voyage. 1768-1771. Originally published/produced in [1] 1769; [2] 1773. BritishLibraryImageServices|id=059640 |flickr=12458810475 British Library image |url=|ms-shelfmark=Add MS 23920 |cim-msid=|cim-coll=|cim-nstart=|dips=|ms-digi=|hasLicense=yes

credit: This file has been provided by the British Library from its digital collections. <br><small>Catalogue entry: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&amp;frbg=&amp;scp.scps=scope:(BL)&amp;tab=local&amp;srt=rank&amp;ct=search&amp;mode=Basic&amp;dum=true&amp;indx=1&amp;vl(freeText0)=%22Add+MS+23920%22&amp;vid=IAMS_VU2&amp;fn=search">Add MS 23920</a></small>

description: <div class="description"> <p>Portrait of a New Zealand man </p> [Whole folio] Portrait of Otegoowgoow [Otegoonoon], son of a chief of the Bay of Islands. He has a comb in his hair, an ornament of green stone in his ear, and another of a fish's tooth round his neck. Joseph Banks records meeting him on 3 December 1769. Drawing by <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">sydney</u> <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">parkinson</u>, circa December 1769, with engraving below</div>

title: Three paddles from New Zealand - Drawings made in the Countries visited by Captain Cook in his First Voyage (1769), f.71 - BL Add MS 23920

artist: <bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Sydney_Parkinson" class="extiw" title="w:en:Sydney Parkinson">Sydney Parkinson</a> </bdi>

date: 1769<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1769-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>

current location: Institution:British Library

source: Image taken from A Collection of Drawings made in the Countries visited by Captain Cook in his First Voyage. 1768-1771. Originally published/produced in 1769. BritishLibraryImageServices|id=060056 |flickr=12458990463 British Library image |url=|ms-shelfmark=Add MS 23920 |cim-msid=|cim-coll=|cim-nstart=|dips=|ms-digi=|hasLicense=yes

credit: This file has been provided by the British Library from its digital collections. <br><small>Catalogue entry: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&amp;frbg=&amp;scp.scps=scope:(BL)&amp;tab=local&amp;srt=rank&amp;ct=search&amp;mode=Basic&amp;dum=true&amp;indx=1&amp;vl(freeText0)=%22Add+MS+23920%22&amp;vid=IAMS_VU2&amp;fn=search">Add MS 23920</a></small>

title: <div class="fn"> <span ><span dir="ltr" lang="en"><i>'Portrait of a Large Dog' (Dingo) <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17023111#P1476" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a></i></span></span><div style="display: none;">title QS:P1476,en:"'Portrait of a Large Dog' (Dingo) <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17023111#P1476" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a>"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Len,"'Portrait of a Large Dog' (Dingo) <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17023111#P1476" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a>"</div> </div>

artist: <bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:George_Stubbs" class="extiw" title="w:en:George Stubbs">George Stubbs</a> </bdi>

date: 1772<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1772-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>

dimensions: Painting: 610 mm x 711 mm x 8 mm, Frame: 782 x 880 x 76 mm, Weight: 13.5kg

current location: Institution:Royal Museums Greenwich

source: http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/573620

credit: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/573620">http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/573620</a>

description: 'Portrait of a Large Dog' (Dingo)<br><p>‘Kangaroo’ and ‘Dingo’ were commissioned by Sir Joseph Banks (1743–1820) following his participation on Captain James Cook’s first voyage to the Pacific (1768–71), which was also the first British voyage devoted exclusively to scientific discovery. Banks is a major figure in the development of European natural history and was an important patron of science and the arts. Both paintings were executed by George Stubbs (1724–1806), the foremost animal painter in Britain during the 18th century, within two years of Banks’ return. They are the most significant artistic productions directly related to it, and the earliest painted representations of these iconic animals in Western art. The paintings were exhibited as a pair in London in 1773 and have remained together in the UK ever since. </p> <p>Cook’s ‘Endeavour’ voyage, and the two that followed (1772–75 and 1776–80), ushered in a new era of European maritime exploration that would have profound significance for the cultures, politics and societies of both explorer and explored. While far from uninterested in the economic and political possibilities of exploration, these three state-sponsored prjects were motivated to a great extent by the desire to improve navigation and gain knowledge of uncharted lands, seas, peoples, plants and animals. Cook’s ships were in effect floating laboratories carrying astronomers, artists, and natural scientists as well as seamen who collected, sketched, painted, measured and recorded what they saw. The voyages both reflected and came to define the ideals of the Enlightenment and served as models for the equally ambitious British, Spanish, French and Russian voyages of exploration that followed into the Pacific. </p> <p>All three of Cook’s voyages produced significant scientific results. However, it was the dramatic revelations of new lands, species and peoples from the first voyage that captured the imagination of both the general public and scientific communities in Britain and Europe. The scientific focus and outcomes were due in large part to the gentleman-scientist Joseph Banks, who accompanied Cook on Endeavour. Banks’ personal entourage of eight included two artists and a botanist. Both artists died during the voyage but one, <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">sydney</u> <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">parkinson</u>, produced over 800 drawings of plants and animals (now in the collection of the Natural History Museum, London). The huge task of cataloguing Banks’ natural history collections occupied the botanist, Daniel Solander, for the rest of his working life. However, Banks’ ‘Florilegium’ –comprising the finished drawings that <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">parkinson</u> completed before his death late in the voyage - was not published in his lifetime and only finally appeared (in colour) in the 1980s. Banks’ decision to engage Stubbs so soon after his return in 1771 is testimony to the artist’s reputation as the foremost animal painter in Britain, and to the importance that Banks attached to these two examples of Australian fauna. Stubbs’ equestrian portraits may be more widely known today but the artistic importance of his ‘exotic’ subjects cannot be overestimated. Together with his anatomical studies, and more than the work of any other artist, Stubbs’s considerable painted menagerie of rare and unknown species (mainly from collected living examples then in Britain) embodies the interconnected status of the arts and natural sciences during the later 18th century. ‘Kangaroo’ and ‘Dingo’ are the only painted portraits by Stubbs of animals native to Australia, and the only occasion on which he was unable to observe his subject from life. In the absence of live models, the artist worked from written and verbal descriptions provided by Banks himself and, in the case of the kangaroo, a small group of slight pencil sketches made by <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">parkinson</u> and a stuffed or inflated pelt (now lost) that was in Banks’ possession. Banks’ decision to employ such a celebrated animal painter, renowned for his scientific methods, must in part be understood as an attempt to give the unfamiliar sights and discoveries of Cook’s first voyage the kind of cultural significance that could only be achieved through the public display and dissemination of great works of art. Capitalizing on the topicality of the voyage and the novelty of his subjects, Stubbs exhibited both paintings at the Society of Artists in London in 1773, thus bringing to public attention two previously unknown animals that quickly became closely identified with the new world of Australia. Later the same year, an engraving after the image of the kangaroo was used to illustrate John Hawkesworth’s ‘An account of voyages undertaken … for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere’ (1773). This was the first major publication emanating from Cook’s voyage, creating great public and scientific excitement about and interest in the Pacific. The image was engraved many more times and subsequently became the standard visual representation of the kangaroo throughout the 19th century. From 1777, Banks’ housed his ever-expanding collections of specimens and associated artwork in 32 Soho Square, London. Here too he displayed the ‘Kangaroo’ and ‘Dingo’ and the now–iconic portrait of Captain Cook by Nathaniel Dance (BHC2628), which hung in the library. This house became a virtual museum and research institute, where scientists and politicians from across Europe would meet. In addition, Banks himself played a key role in the Royal Society, the Society of Artists, the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and the Board of Longitude. The Botany Library of the Natural History Museum, London, holds all of the surviving botanical artwork from Cook’s ‘Endeavour’ voyage. It is easy today to underestimate what an extraordinary feat this was, and what a profound effect it had at the time and for the course of British and world history. Some measure of its ambition and impact can be gauged by the adoption by NASA of the name ‘Endeavour’ for its fifth Space Shuttle. In 2011 the Space Shuttle ‘Discovery’, named after Cook’s accompanying ship on his third voyage, carried on its final mission the Cook Medal (1784) from the National Maritime Museum’s collection. For the late 18th century, Australia was an equally distant, unknown world, and Stubbs’s ‘Kangaroo’ and ‘Dingo’ represented, in a very real sense, ‘alien’ species.<br></p> Portrait of a Large Dog' (Dingo). Stubbs. ZBA5755

title: <div class="fn"> <span ><span dir="ltr" lang="en"><i>'The Kongouro from New Holland' (Kangaroo) <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17009160#P1476" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a></i></span></span><div style="display: none;">title QS:P1476,en:"'The Kongouro from New Holland' (Kangaroo) <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17009160#P1476" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a>"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Len,"'The Kongouro from New Holland' (Kangaroo) <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17009160#P1476" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a>"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Les,"El canguro de Nueva Holanda"</div> </div>

artist: <bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:George_Stubbs" class="extiw" title="w:en:George Stubbs">George Stubbs</a> </bdi>

date: 1772<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1772-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>

dimensions: Painting: 610 mm x 711 mm x 8 mm, Frame: 782 x 880 x 76 mm, Weight: 13.5kg

current location: Institution:Royal Museums Greenwich

source: http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/573620

credit: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/573620">http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/573620</a>

description: 'Portrait of a Large Dog' (Dingo)<br><p>‘Kangaroo’ and ‘Dingo’ were commissioned by Sir Joseph Banks (1743–1820) following his participation on Captain James Cook’s first voyage to the Pacific (1768–71), which was also the first British voyage devoted exclusively to scientific discovery. Banks is a major figure in the development of European natural history and was an important patron of science and the arts. Both paintings were executed by George Stubbs (1724–1806), the foremost animal painter in Britain during the 18th century, within two years of Banks’ return. They are the most significant artistic productions directly related to it, and the earliest painted representations of these iconic animals in Western art. The paintings were exhibited as a pair in London in 1773 and have remained together in the UK ever since. </p> <p>Cook’s ‘Endeavour’ voyage, and the two that followed (1772–75 and 1776–80), ushered in a new era of European maritime exploration that would have profound significance for the cultures, politics and societies of both explorer and explored. While far from uninterested in the economic and political possibilities of exploration, these three state-sponsored prjects were motivated to a great extent by the desire to improve navigation and gain knowledge of uncharted lands, seas, peoples, plants and animals. Cook’s ships were in effect floating laboratories carrying astronomers, artists, and natural scientists as well as seamen who collected, sketched, painted, measured and recorded what they saw. The voyages both reflected and came to define the ideals of the Enlightenment and served as models for the equally ambitious British, Spanish, French and Russian voyages of exploration that followed into the Pacific. </p> <p>All three of Cook’s voyages produced significant scientific results. However, it was the dramatic revelations of new lands, species and peoples from the first voyage that captured the imagination of both the general public and scientific communities in Britain and Europe. The scientific focus and outcomes were due in large part to the gentleman-scientist Joseph Banks, who accompanied Cook on Endeavour. Banks’ personal entourage of eight included two artists and a botanist. Both artists died during the voyage but one, <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">sydney</u> <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">parkinson</u>, produced over 800 drawings of plants and animals (now in the collection of the Natural History Museum, London). The huge task of cataloguing Banks’ natural history collections occupied the botanist, Daniel Solander, for the rest of his working life. However, Banks’ ‘Florilegium’ –comprising the finished drawings that <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">parkinson</u> completed before his death late in the voyage - was not published in his lifetime and only finally appeared (in colour) in the 1980s. Banks’ decision to engage Stubbs so soon after his return in 1771 is testimony to the artist’s reputation as the foremost animal painter in Britain, and to the importance that Banks attached to these two examples of Australian fauna. Stubbs’ equestrian portraits may be more widely known today but the artistic importance of his ‘exotic’ subjects cannot be overestimated. Together with his anatomical studies, and more than the work of any other artist, Stubbs’s considerable painted menagerie of rare and unknown species (mainly from collected living examples then in Britain) embodies the interconnected status of the arts and natural sciences during the later 18th century. ‘Kangaroo’ and ‘Dingo’ are the only painted portraits by Stubbs of animals native to Australia, and the only occasion on which he was unable to observe his subject from life. In the absence of live models, the artist worked from written and verbal descriptions provided by Banks himself and, in the case of the kangaroo, a small group of slight pencil sketches made by <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">parkinson</u> and a stuffed or inflated pelt (now lost) that was in Banks’ possession. Banks’ decision to employ such a celebrated animal painter, renowned for his scientific methods, must in part be understood as an attempt to give the unfamiliar sights and discoveries of Cook’s first voyage the kind of cultural significance that could only be achieved through the public display and dissemination of great works of art. Capitalizing on the topicality of the voyage and the novelty of his subjects, Stubbs exhibited both paintings at the Society of Artists in London in 1773, thus bringing to public attention two previously unknown animals that quickly became closely identified with the new world of Australia. Later the same year, an engraving after the image of the kangaroo was used to illustrate John Hawkesworth’s ‘An account of voyages undertaken … for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere’ (1773). This was the first major publication emanating from Cook’s voyage, creating great public and scientific excitement about and interest in the Pacific. The image was engraved many more times and subsequently became the standard visual representation of the kangaroo throughout the 19th century. &gt;From 1777, Banks’ housed his ever-expanding collections of specimens and associated artwork in 32 Soho Square, London. Here too he displayed the ‘Kangaroo’ and ‘Dingo’ and the now–iconic portrait of Captain Cook by Nathaniel Dance (BHC2628), which hung in the library. This house became a virtual museum and research institute, where scientists and politicians from across Europe would meet. In addition, Banks himself played a key role in the Royal Society, the Society of Artists, the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and the Board of Longitude. The Botany Library of the Natural History Museum, London, holds all of the surviving botanical artwork from Cook’s ‘Endeavour’ voyage. It is easy today to underestimate what an extraordinary feat this was, and what a profound effect it had at the time and for the course of British and world history. Some measure of its ambition and impact can be gauged by the adoption by NASA of the name ‘Endeavour’ for its fifth Space Shuttle. In 2011 the Space Shuttle ‘Discovery’, named after Cook’s accompanying ship on his third voyage, carried on its final mission the Cook Medal (1784) from the National Maritime Museum’s collection. For the late 18th century, Australia was an equally distant, unknown world, and Stubbs’s ‘Kangaroo’ and ‘Dingo’ represented, in a very real sense, ‘alien’ species.<br></p> Photograph of the two recently aquired Stubbs paintings on display in the National Maritime Museum Shop.

title: <div class="fn"> <span ><span dir="ltr" lang="en"><i>'Portrait of a Large Dog' (Dingo) <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17023111#P1476" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a></i></span></span><div style="display: none;">title QS:P1476,en:"'Portrait of a Large Dog' (Dingo) <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17023111#P1476" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a>"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Len,"'Portrait of a Large Dog' (Dingo) <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17023111#P1476" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a>"</div> </div>

artist: <bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:George_Stubbs" class="extiw" title="w:en:George Stubbs">George Stubbs</a> </bdi>

date: 1772<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1772-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>

dimensions: Painting: 610 mm x 711 mm x 8 mm, Frame: 782 x 880 x 76 mm, Weight: 13.5kg

current location: Institution:Royal Museums Greenwich

source: http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/573620

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description: 'Portrait of a Large Dog' (Dingo)<br><p>‘Kangaroo’ and ‘Dingo’ were commissioned by Sir Joseph Banks (1743–1820) following his participation on Captain James Cook’s first voyage to the Pacific (1768–71), which was also the first British voyage devoted exclusively to scientific discovery. Banks is a major figure in the development of European natural history and was an important patron of science and the arts. Both paintings were executed by George Stubbs (1724–1806), the foremost animal painter in Britain during the 18th century, within two years of Banks’ return. They are the most significant artistic productions directly related to it, and the earliest painted representations of these iconic animals in Western art. The paintings were exhibited as a pair in London in 1773 and have remained together in the UK ever since. </p> <p>Cook’s ‘Endeavour’ voyage, and the two that followed (1772–75 and 1776–80), ushered in a new era of European maritime exploration that would have profound significance for the cultures, politics and societies of both explorer and explored. While far from uninterested in the economic and political possibilities of exploration, these three state-sponsored prjects were motivated to a great extent by the desire to improve navigation and gain knowledge of uncharted lands, seas, peoples, plants and animals. Cook’s ships were in effect floating laboratories carrying astronomers, artists, and natural scientists as well as seamen who collected, sketched, painted, measured and recorded what they saw. The voyages both reflected and came to define the ideals of the Enlightenment and served as models for the equally ambitious British, Spanish, French and Russian voyages of exploration that followed into the Pacific. </p> <p>All three of Cook’s voyages produced significant scientific results. However, it was the dramatic revelations of new lands, species and peoples from the first voyage that captured the imagination of both the general public and scientific communities in Britain and Europe. The scientific focus and outcomes were due in large part to the gentleman-scientist Joseph Banks, who accompanied Cook on Endeavour. Banks’ personal entourage of eight included two artists and a botanist. Both artists died during the voyage but one, <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">sydney</u> <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">parkinson</u>, produced over 800 drawings of plants and animals (now in the collection of the Natural History Museum, London). The huge task of cataloguing Banks’ natural history collections occupied the botanist, Daniel Solander, for the rest of his working life. However, Banks’ ‘Florilegium’ –comprising the finished drawings that <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">parkinson</u> completed before his death late in the voyage - was not published in his lifetime and only finally appeared (in colour) in the 1980s. Banks’ decision to engage Stubbs so soon after his return in 1771 is testimony to the artist’s reputation as the foremost animal painter in Britain, and to the importance that Banks attached to these two examples of Australian fauna. Stubbs’ equestrian portraits may be more widely known today but the artistic importance of his ‘exotic’ subjects cannot be overestimated. Together with his anatomical studies, and more than the work of any other artist, Stubbs’s considerable painted menagerie of rare and unknown species (mainly from collected living examples then in Britain) embodies the interconnected status of the arts and natural sciences during the later 18th century. ‘Kangaroo’ and ‘Dingo’ are the only painted portraits by Stubbs of animals native to Australia, and the only occasion on which he was unable to observe his subject from life. In the absence of live models, the artist worked from written and verbal descriptions provided by Banks himself and, in the case of the kangaroo, a small group of slight pencil sketches made by <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">parkinson</u> and a stuffed or inflated pelt (now lost) that was in Banks’ possession. Banks’ decision to employ such a celebrated animal painter, renowned for his scientific methods, must in part be understood as an attempt to give the unfamiliar sights and discoveries of Cook’s first voyage the kind of cultural significance that could only be achieved through the public display and dissemination of great works of art. Capitalizing on the topicality of the voyage and the novelty of his subjects, Stubbs exhibited both paintings at the Society of Artists in London in 1773, thus bringing to public attention two previously unknown animals that quickly became closely identified with the new world of Australia. Later the same year, an engraving after the image of the kangaroo was used to illustrate John Hawkesworth’s ‘An account of voyages undertaken … for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere’ (1773). This was the first major publication emanating from Cook’s voyage, creating great public and scientific excitement about and interest in the Pacific. The image was engraved many more times and subsequently became the standard visual representation of the kangaroo throughout the 19th century. From 1777, Banks’ housed his ever-expanding collections of specimens and associated artwork in 32 Soho Square, London. Here too he displayed the ‘Kangaroo’ and ‘Dingo’ and the now–iconic portrait of Captain Cook by Nathaniel Dance (BHC2628), which hung in the library. This house became a virtual museum and research institute, where scientists and politicians from across Europe would meet. In addition, Banks himself played a key role in the Royal Society, the Society of Artists, the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and the Board of Longitude. The Botany Library of the Natural History Museum, London, holds all of the surviving botanical artwork from Cook’s ‘Endeavour’ voyage. It is easy today to underestimate what an extraordinary feat this was, and what a profound effect it had at the time and for the course of British and world history. Some measure of its ambition and impact can be gauged by the adoption by NASA of the name ‘Endeavour’ for its fifth Space Shuttle. In 2011 the Space Shuttle ‘Discovery’, named after Cook’s accompanying ship on his third voyage, carried on its final mission the Cook Medal (1784) from the National Maritime Museum’s collection. For the late 18th century, Australia was an equally distant, unknown world, and Stubbs’s ‘Kangaroo’ and ‘Dingo’ represented, in a very real sense, ‘alien’ species.<br></p> Portrait of a Large Dog (Dingo), 1772 by George Stubbs: Overall Photograph, light raking from side.

title: <div class="fn"> <span ><span dir="ltr" lang="en"><i>'Portrait of a Large Dog' (Dingo) <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17023111#P1476" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a></i></span></span><div style="display: none;">title QS:P1476,en:"'Portrait of a Large Dog' (Dingo) <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17023111#P1476" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a>"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Len,"'Portrait of a Large Dog' (Dingo) <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17023111#P1476" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a>"</div> </div>

artist: <bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:George_Stubbs" class="extiw" title="w:en:George Stubbs">George Stubbs</a> </bdi>

date: 1772<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1772-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>

dimensions: Painting: 610 mm x 711 mm x 8 mm, Frame: 782 x 880 x 76 mm, Weight: 13.5kg

current location: Institution:Royal Museums Greenwich

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description: 'Portrait of a Large Dog' (Dingo)<br><p>‘Kangaroo’ and ‘Dingo’ were commissioned by Sir Joseph Banks (1743–1820) following his participation on Captain James Cook’s first voyage to the Pacific (1768–71), which was also the first British voyage devoted exclusively to scientific discovery. Banks is a major figure in the development of European natural history and was an important patron of science and the arts. Both paintings were executed by George Stubbs (1724–1806), the foremost animal painter in Britain during the 18th century, within two years of Banks’ return. They are the most significant artistic productions directly related to it, and the earliest painted representations of these iconic animals in Western art. The paintings were exhibited as a pair in London in 1773 and have remained together in the UK ever since. </p> <p>Cook’s ‘Endeavour’ voyage, and the two that followed (1772–75 and 1776–80), ushered in a new era of European maritime exploration that would have profound significance for the cultures, politics and societies of both explorer and explored. While far from uninterested in the economic and political possibilities of exploration, these three state-sponsored prjects were motivated to a great extent by the desire to improve navigation and gain knowledge of uncharted lands, seas, peoples, plants and animals. Cook’s ships were in effect floating laboratories carrying astronomers, artists, and natural scientists as well as seamen who collected, sketched, painted, measured and recorded what they saw. The voyages both reflected and came to define the ideals of the Enlightenment and served as models for the equally ambitious British, Spanish, French and Russian voyages of exploration that followed into the Pacific. </p> <p>All three of Cook’s voyages produced significant scientific results. However, it was the dramatic revelations of new lands, species and peoples from the first voyage that captured the imagination of both the general public and scientific communities in Britain and Europe. The scientific focus and outcomes were due in large part to the gentleman-scientist Joseph Banks, who accompanied Cook on Endeavour. Banks’ personal entourage of eight included two artists and a botanist. Both artists died during the voyage but one, <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">sydney</u> <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">parkinson</u>, produced over 800 drawings of plants and animals (now in the collection of the Natural History Museum, London). The huge task of cataloguing Banks’ natural history collections occupied the botanist, Daniel Solander, for the rest of his working life. However, Banks’ ‘Florilegium’ –comprising the finished drawings that <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">parkinson</u> completed before his death late in the voyage - was not published in his lifetime and only finally appeared (in colour) in the 1980s. Banks’ decision to engage Stubbs so soon after his return in 1771 is testimony to the artist’s reputation as the foremost animal painter in Britain, and to the importance that Banks attached to these two examples of Australian fauna. Stubbs’ equestrian portraits may be more widely known today but the artistic importance of his ‘exotic’ subjects cannot be overestimated. Together with his anatomical studies, and more than the work of any other artist, Stubbs’s considerable painted menagerie of rare and unknown species (mainly from collected living examples then in Britain) embodies the interconnected status of the arts and natural sciences during the later 18th century. ‘Kangaroo’ and ‘Dingo’ are the only painted portraits by Stubbs of animals native to Australia, and the only occasion on which he was unable to observe his subject from life. In the absence of live models, the artist worked from written and verbal descriptions provided by Banks himself and, in the case of the kangaroo, a small group of slight pencil sketches made by <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">parkinson</u> and a stuffed or inflated pelt (now lost) that was in Banks’ possession. Banks’ decision to employ such a celebrated animal painter, renowned for his scientific methods, must in part be understood as an attempt to give the unfamiliar sights and discoveries of Cook’s first voyage the kind of cultural significance that could only be achieved through the public display and dissemination of great works of art. Capitalizing on the topicality of the voyage and the novelty of his subjects, Stubbs exhibited both paintings at the Society of Artists in London in 1773, thus bringing to public attention two previously unknown animals that quickly became closely identified with the new world of Australia. Later the same year, an engraving after the image of the kangaroo was used to illustrate John Hawkesworth’s ‘An account of voyages undertaken … for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere’ (1773). This was the first major publication emanating from Cook’s voyage, creating great public and scientific excitement about and interest in the Pacific. The image was engraved many more times and subsequently became the standard visual representation of the kangaroo throughout the 19th century. From 1777, Banks’ housed his ever-expanding collections of specimens and associated artwork in 32 Soho Square, London. Here too he displayed the ‘Kangaroo’ and ‘Dingo’ and the now–iconic portrait of Captain Cook by Nathaniel Dance (BHC2628), which hung in the library. This house became a virtual museum and research institute, where scientists and politicians from across Europe would meet. In addition, Banks himself played a key role in the Royal Society, the Society of Artists, the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and the Board of Longitude. The Botany Library of the Natural History Museum, London, holds all of the surviving botanical artwork from Cook’s ‘Endeavour’ voyage. It is easy today to underestimate what an extraordinary feat this was, and what a profound effect it had at the time and for the course of British and world history. Some measure of its ambition and impact can be gauged by the adoption by NASA of the name ‘Endeavour’ for its fifth Space Shuttle. In 2011 the Space Shuttle ‘Discovery’, named after Cook’s accompanying ship on his third voyage, carried on its final mission the Cook Medal (1784) from the National Maritime Museum’s collection. For the late 18th century, Australia was an equally distant, unknown world, and Stubbs’s ‘Kangaroo’ and ‘Dingo’ represented, in a very real sense, ‘alien’ species.<br></p> Portrait of a Large Dog (Dingo), 1772 by George Stubbs: Lower left detail.

title: <div class="fn"> <span ><span dir="ltr" lang="en"><i>'Portrait of a Large Dog' (Dingo) <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17023111#P1476" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a></i></span></span><div style="display: none;">title QS:P1476,en:"'Portrait of a Large Dog' (Dingo) <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17023111#P1476" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a>"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Len,"'Portrait of a Large Dog' (Dingo) <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17023111#P1476" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a>"</div> </div>

artist: <bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:George_Stubbs" class="extiw" title="w:en:George Stubbs">George Stubbs</a> </bdi>

date: 1772<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1772-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>

dimensions: Painting: 610 mm x 711 mm x 8 mm, Frame: 782 x 880 x 76 mm, Weight: 13.5kg

current location: Institution:Royal Museums Greenwich

source: http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/573620

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description: 'Portrait of a Large Dog' (Dingo)<br><p>‘Kangaroo’ and ‘Dingo’ were commissioned by Sir Joseph Banks (1743–1820) following his participation on Captain James Cook’s first voyage to the Pacific (1768–71), which was also the first British voyage devoted exclusively to scientific discovery. Banks is a major figure in the development of European natural history and was an important patron of science and the arts. Both paintings were executed by George Stubbs (1724–1806), the foremost animal painter in Britain during the 18th century, within two years of Banks’ return. They are the most significant artistic productions directly related to it, and the earliest painted representations of these iconic animals in Western art. The paintings were exhibited as a pair in London in 1773 and have remained together in the UK ever since. </p> <p>Cook’s ‘Endeavour’ voyage, and the two that followed (1772–75 and 1776–80), ushered in a new era of European maritime exploration that would have profound significance for the cultures, politics and societies of both explorer and explored. While far from uninterested in the economic and political possibilities of exploration, these three state-sponsored prjects were motivated to a great extent by the desire to improve navigation and gain knowledge of uncharted lands, seas, peoples, plants and animals. Cook’s ships were in effect floating laboratories carrying astronomers, artists, and natural scientists as well as seamen who collected, sketched, painted, measured and recorded what they saw. The voyages both reflected and came to define the ideals of the Enlightenment and served as models for the equally ambitious British, Spanish, French and Russian voyages of exploration that followed into the Pacific. </p> <p>All three of Cook’s voyages produced significant scientific results. However, it was the dramatic revelations of new lands, species and peoples from the first voyage that captured the imagination of both the general public and scientific communities in Britain and Europe. The scientific focus and outcomes were due in large part to the gentleman-scientist Joseph Banks, who accompanied Cook on Endeavour. Banks’ personal entourage of eight included two artists and a botanist. Both artists died during the voyage but one, <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">sydney</u> <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">parkinson</u>, produced over 800 drawings of plants and animals (now in the collection of the Natural History Museum, London). The huge task of cataloguing Banks’ natural history collections occupied the botanist, Daniel Solander, for the rest of his working life. However, Banks’ ‘Florilegium’ –comprising the finished drawings that <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">parkinson</u> completed before his death late in the voyage - was not published in his lifetime and only finally appeared (in colour) in the 1980s. Banks’ decision to engage Stubbs so soon after his return in 1771 is testimony to the artist’s reputation as the foremost animal painter in Britain, and to the importance that Banks attached to these two examples of Australian fauna. Stubbs’ equestrian portraits may be more widely known today but the artistic importance of his ‘exotic’ subjects cannot be overestimated. Together with his anatomical studies, and more than the work of any other artist, Stubbs’s considerable painted menagerie of rare and unknown species (mainly from collected living examples then in Britain) embodies the interconnected status of the arts and natural sciences during the later 18th century. ‘Kangaroo’ and ‘Dingo’ are the only painted portraits by Stubbs of animals native to Australia, and the only occasion on which he was unable to observe his subject from life. In the absence of live models, the artist worked from written and verbal descriptions provided by Banks himself and, in the case of the kangaroo, a small group of slight pencil sketches made by <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">parkinson</u> and a stuffed or inflated pelt (now lost) that was in Banks’ possession. Banks’ decision to employ such a celebrated animal painter, renowned for his scientific methods, must in part be understood as an attempt to give the unfamiliar sights and discoveries of Cook’s first voyage the kind of cultural significance that could only be achieved through the public display and dissemination of great works of art. Capitalizing on the topicality of the voyage and the novelty of his subjects, Stubbs exhibited both paintings at the Society of Artists in London in 1773, thus bringing to public attention two previously unknown animals that quickly became closely identified with the new world of Australia. Later the same year, an engraving after the image of the kangaroo was used to illustrate John Hawkesworth’s ‘An account of voyages undertaken … for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere’ (1773). This was the first major publication emanating from Cook’s voyage, creating great public and scientific excitement about and interest in the Pacific. The image was engraved many more times and subsequently became the standard visual representation of the kangaroo throughout the 19th century. From 1777, Banks’ housed his ever-expanding collections of specimens and associated artwork in 32 Soho Square, London. Here too he displayed the ‘Kangaroo’ and ‘Dingo’ and the now–iconic portrait of Captain Cook by Nathaniel Dance (BHC2628), which hung in the library. This house became a virtual museum and research institute, where scientists and politicians from across Europe would meet. In addition, Banks himself played a key role in the Royal Society, the Society of Artists, the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and the Board of Longitude. The Botany Library of the Natural History Museum, London, holds all of the surviving botanical artwork from Cook’s ‘Endeavour’ voyage. It is easy today to underestimate what an extraordinary feat this was, and what a profound effect it had at the time and for the course of British and world history. Some measure of its ambition and impact can be gauged by the adoption by NASA of the name ‘Endeavour’ for its fifth Space Shuttle. In 2011 the Space Shuttle ‘Discovery’, named after Cook’s accompanying ship on his third voyage, carried on its final mission the Cook Medal (1784) from the National Maritime Museum’s collection. For the late 18th century, Australia was an equally distant, unknown world, and Stubbs’s ‘Kangaroo’ and ‘Dingo’ represented, in a very real sense, ‘alien’ species.<br></p> Portrait of a Large Dog (Dingo), 1772 by George Stubbs: Upper left detail- raking light.

title: <div class="fn"> <span ><span dir="ltr" lang="en"><i>'Portrait of a Large Dog' (Dingo) <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17023111#P1476" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a></i></span></span><div style="display: none;">title QS:P1476,en:"'Portrait of a Large Dog' (Dingo) <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17023111#P1476" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a>"</div> <div style="display: none;">label QS:Len,"'Portrait of a Large Dog' (Dingo) <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17023111#P1476" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" style="vertical-align: text-top" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20"></a>"</div> </div>

artist: <bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:George_Stubbs" class="extiw" title="w:en:George Stubbs">George Stubbs</a> </bdi>

date: 1772<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1772-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>

dimensions: Painting: 610 mm x 711 mm x 8 mm, Frame: 782 x 880 x 76 mm, Weight: 13.5kg

current location: Institution:Royal Museums Greenwich

source: http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/573620

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description: 'Portrait of a Large Dog' (Dingo)<br><p>‘Kangaroo’ and ‘Dingo’ were commissioned by Sir Joseph Banks (1743–1820) following his participation on Captain James Cook’s first voyage to the Pacific (1768–71), which was also the first British voyage devoted exclusively to scientific discovery. Banks is a major figure in the development of European natural history and was an important patron of science and the arts. Both paintings were executed by George Stubbs (1724–1806), the foremost animal painter in Britain during the 18th century, within two years of Banks’ return. They are the most significant artistic productions directly related to it, and the earliest painted representations of these iconic animals in Western art. The paintings were exhibited as a pair in London in 1773 and have remained together in the UK ever since. </p> <p>Cook’s ‘Endeavour’ voyage, and the two that followed (1772–75 and 1776–80), ushered in a new era of European maritime exploration that would have profound significance for the cultures, politics and societies of both explorer and explored. While far from uninterested in the economic and political possibilities of exploration, these three state-sponsored prjects were motivated to a great extent by the desire to improve navigation and gain knowledge of uncharted lands, seas, peoples, plants and animals. Cook’s ships were in effect floating laboratories carrying astronomers, artists, and natural scientists as well as seamen who collected, sketched, painted, measured and recorded what they saw. The voyages both reflected and came to define the ideals of the Enlightenment and served as models for the equally ambitious British, Spanish, French and Russian voyages of exploration that followed into the Pacific. </p> <p>All three of Cook’s voyages produced significant scientific results. However, it was the dramatic revelations of new lands, species and peoples from the first voyage that captured the imagination of both the general public and scientific communities in Britain and Europe. The scientific focus and outcomes were due in large part to the gentleman-scientist Joseph Banks, who accompanied Cook on Endeavour. Banks’ personal entourage of eight included two artists and a botanist. Both artists died during the voyage but one, <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">sydney</u> <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">parkinson</u>, produced over 800 drawings of plants and animals (now in the collection of the Natural History Museum, London). The huge task of cataloguing Banks’ natural history collections occupied the botanist, Daniel Solander, for the rest of his working life. However, Banks’ ‘Florilegium’ –comprising the finished drawings that <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">parkinson</u> completed before his death late in the voyage - was not published in his lifetime and only finally appeared (in colour) in the 1980s. Banks’ decision to engage Stubbs so soon after his return in 1771 is testimony to the artist’s reputation as the foremost animal painter in Britain, and to the importance that Banks attached to these two examples of Australian fauna. Stubbs’ equestrian portraits may be more widely known today but the artistic importance of his ‘exotic’ subjects cannot be overestimated. Together with his anatomical studies, and more than the work of any other artist, Stubbs’s considerable painted menagerie of rare and unknown species (mainly from collected living examples then in Britain) embodies the interconnected status of the arts and natural sciences during the later 18th century. ‘Kangaroo’ and ‘Dingo’ are the only painted portraits by Stubbs of animals native to Australia, and the only occasion on which he was unable to observe his subject from life. In the absence of live models, the artist worked from written and verbal descriptions provided by Banks himself and, in the case of the kangaroo, a small group of slight pencil sketches made by <u style="background-color:yellow;" class="">parkinson</u> and a stuffed or inflated pelt (now lost) that was in Banks’ possession. Banks’ decision to employ such a celebrated animal painter, renowned for his scientific methods, must in part be understood as an attempt to give the unfamiliar sights and discoveries of Cook’s first voyage the kind of cultural significance that could only be achieved through the public display and dissemination of great works of art. Capitalizing on the topicality of the voyage and the novelty of his subjects, Stubbs exhibited both paintings at the Society of Artists in London in 1773, thus bringing to public attention two previously unknown animals that quickly became closely identified with the new world of Australia. Later the same year, an engraving after the image of the kangaroo was used to illustrate John Hawkesworth’s ‘An account of voyages undertaken … for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere’ (1773). This was the first major publication emanating from Cook’s voyage, creating great public and scientific excitement about and interest in the Pacific. The image was engraved many more times and subsequently became the standard visual representation of the kangaroo throughout the 19th century. From 1777, Banks’ housed his ever-expanding collections of specimens and associated artwork in 32 Soho Square, London. Here too he displayed the ‘Kangaroo’ and ‘Dingo’ and the now–iconic portrait of Captain Cook by Nathaniel Dance (BHC2628), which hung in the library. This house became a virtual museum and research institute, where scientists and politicians from across Europe would meet. In addition, Banks himself played a key role in the Royal Society, the Society of Artists, the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and the Board of Longitude. The Botany Library of the Natural History Museum, London, holds all of the surviving botanical artwork from Cook’s ‘Endeavour’ voyage. It is easy today to underestimate what an extraordinary feat this was, and what a profound effect it had at the time and for the course of British and world history. Some measure of its ambition and impact can be gauged by the adoption by NASA of the name ‘Endeavour’ for its fifth Space Shuttle. In 2011 the Space Shuttle ‘Discovery’, named after Cook’s accompanying ship on his third voyage, carried on its final mission the Cook Medal (1784) from the National Maritime Museum’s collection. For the late 18th century, Australia was an equally distant, unknown world, and Stubbs’s ‘Kangaroo’ and ‘Dingo’ represented, in a very real sense, ‘alien’ species.<br></p> Portrait of a Large Dog (Dingo), 1772 by George Stubbs: Label Detail.