Information about the engravers involved
in the project.
(Illustration - Banks Florilegium Plate 328)

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THE ENGRAVINGS

At least seven hundred and forty-three engraved copperplates of superb quality were
made from the completed water-colour drawings by eighteen engravers over the years
1771-1784 under the discriminating eye of Joseph Banks and at a cost to him of over
£7,000. The principal engraver Daniel MacKenzie actually resided at Banks' house in
Soho Square and produced over two hundred and fifty of the finished plates.
MacKenzie, G. Sibelius and Gabriel Smith were responsible between them for more
than three-quarters of the total number of plates. The other fifteen engravers in the
order of their output of finished plates were Charles White, William Tringham, Robert
Blyth, Frederick P. Nodder, Jabez Goldar, van Drazowa, Thomas Scratchley, John
Lee, Jean-Baptiste Michell, William Smith, Edward Walker, John Roberts, Thomas
Morris, Bannerman and Francis Chesham.