Print: The Great South Sea Caterpillar, Transform'd Into A Bath Butterfly
Print: The Great South Sea Caterpillar, Transform'd Into A Bath Butterfly
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  • Title: The Great South Sea Caterpillar, Transform'd Into A Bath Butterfly, 1795
  • Description: Cartoon shows the metamorphosis of Sir Joseph Banks from a caterpillar to a butterfly upon his investiture with the Order of the Bath as a result of his South Sea expedition. Draped with the ribbon, and wearing the jewel, of Bath, he rises, chrysalis shaped, from the mudflats on butterfly wings emblazoned with sea creatures towards a radiant sun enclosing a crown.
  • Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist
  • Subjects: Banks, Joseph,--1743-1820, Butterflies--Great Britain--1790-1800, Caterpillars--Great Britain--1790-1800, Order of the Bath--People--1790-1800
  • Collection: Cartoon Prints, British. The cartoon prints (approximately 8,500 distinct images) in the British Cartoon Prints Collection were published primarily between 1780 to 1830, an era dominated by the prodigious talents and prolific efforts of such famous caricaturists as James Gillray and George Cruikshank. The cartoons highlight aspects of British political life, including tensions with its colonies and other nations, as well as society, fashion, manners, and theater.
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