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Image: Mortimer - Captain James Cook, Sir Joseph Banks, Lord Sandwich, Dr Daniel Solander and Dr John Hawkesworth

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Description: Captain James Cook, Sir Joseph Banks, Lord Sandwich, Dr Daniel Solander and Dr John Hawkesworth. Oil on canvas, 120 x 166 cm. By John Hamilton Mortimer. (Title devised by cataloguer). The people portrayed are, from left to right, Dr Daniel Solander, Sir Joseph Banks, Captain James Cook, Dr John Hawkesworth, and John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich.
Title: Mortimer - Captain James Cook, Sir Joseph Banks, Lord Sandwich, Dr Daniel Solander and Dr John Hawkesworth
Credit: National Library of Australia (NLA) digital collections: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an7351768 In publishing this image on their website, the NLA request that users cite the artist, title, the National Library of Australia as the custodian of the original work and their catalogue reference number. Readers of Wikipedia will see there is an "imagemap" for this picture which links the people in the painting to their respective biographies in Wikipedia.
Author: John Hamilton Mortimer (1740-1779). Previously attributed to Johann Zoffany (1733-1810); a plaque on reverse of frame gives the date 1771.
Permission: This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: The author died in 1779, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or less. You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain". This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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