Portrait of Sydney Parkinson (1740-1771) mb-code NTS_BROE_73_574 Two illustrations showing the curvature

Two illustrations showing the curvature of timber and a chock or wedge piece positioned to join a vessel's rib

Men carry relegious texts on scrolls

View of telegraphic tower in West Square

With a variety of inscriptions

Portrait of Sydney Parkinson (1740-1771) mb-code NTS_BROE_73_574 Two illustrations showing the curvaturePortrait of Sydney Parkinson, Joseph Banks's botanical illustrator on the Endeavour voyage to the Pacific in 1768, under Lieutenant James Cook. Parkinson died in 1771 on the voyage home. Frontispiece to A journal of a voyage to the South Seas, in His Majesty's ship, The Endeavour, by Sydney Parkinson (London, 1773), which was published posthumously. Original: engraving. 1773