This is a watercolour-on-paper drawing of <i>Banksia dentata</i>. The attributed artist is James 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> (d. 1771), Sir Joseph Banks' botanical artist who was present when the species was first collected at Endeavour River, Australia.
<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Parkinson" title="Sydney Parkinson">Sydney Parkinson</a> and James 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=002183">here</a>. This is a slightly cropped version that eliminates a ruler that was placed along the base during imaging to indicate the actual size of the image.