Sir Joseph Banks and the Emperor of Morocco
Thomas Rowlandson British
Publisher George Kearsley British
Subject Sir Joseph Banks British
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Sir Joseph Banks is shown pursuing a butterfly with a scissor-like net, in a walled garden. He steps over a gardener who lies sprawled on the ground, knocks over pots, and loses his hat which flies off behind.
The missing poem (trimmed away here):
"Lo down the lane alert the Emp'ror flew.
And struck once more Sir Joseph's hawk like view;
And now he mounted o'er a garden wall!
In rush'd Sir Joseph at the garden door,
Knock'd down the Gard'ner-what could man do more,
And lest him as he chose to rise or sprawl"
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