This is a watercolour-on-paper drawing of <i>Banksia serrata</i>. The attributed artist is John Frederick Miller, but the work would have been heavily based on a partially coloured sketch by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Parkinson" title="Sydney Parkinson">Sydney Parkinson</a>, Sir Joseph Banks' botanical artist who was present when the species was first collected at Botany Bay, Australia.
Sydney Parkinson and John Frederick Miller
1773
The original image is available from the website of the Natural History Museum, London, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/nature-online/endeavour-botanical/detail.dsml?IMAGNO=002176">here</a>. This image is a slightly cropped version that removes a ruler that was placed along the base during imaging to indicate the actual size of the image.