Portrait of Sydney Parkinson (1740-1771) mb-code 1646081 'The cockpit'

'The cockpit'

the trainer of three times Grand National winner Red Rum

men breaking stones and horses and carts in the street

wearing plumes on his head and loose dress with a dog at his feet

offers him an inscribed stick and a bribe of money

Portrait of Sydney Parkinson (1740-1771) mb-code 1646081 'The cockpit'Portrait 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