Keywords: The great south sea caterpillar, transform'd into a Bath butterfly.jpg This is an image of a 1795 cartoon entitled The great south sea caterpillar transform'd into a Bath butterfly 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 MEDIUM 1 print etching hand-colored CREATED/PUBLISHED London Pubd by H Humphrey 1795 July 4th Library of Congress Prints Photographs Division LC-USZC4-8780 color film copy transparency http //memory loc gov/master/pnp/cph/3g00000/3g08000/3g08700/3g08780u tif archival TIFF version 49 MB rotated cropped and converted to JPEG with the GIMP 2 4 6 image quality 88 1795-07-04 creator James Gillray No known restriction on publication LOC-image cph 3g08780 PD-old-100 James Gillray Caricatures of the United Kingdom |