This is a watercolour-on-paper drawing of <i>Banksia ericifolia</i>. The attributed artist is John Frederick Miller, but the work would have been heavily based on a partially coloured drawing 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 <i>Banksia</i> genus was first collected at Botany Bay, Australia.
<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Parkinson" title="Sydney Parkinson">Sydney Parkinson</a> 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=002165">here</a>. This is a slightly cropped version that excludes a ruler that was placed along the base during imaging to indicate the actual size of the image.