Acacia cunninghamii from <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banks%27_Florilegium'>Banks Florilegium</a>, engraved by Daniel MacKenzie (1770-1780), printed in 1900 by order of the British Museum. This is a watercolour-on-paper drawing of Banksia dentata. The attributed artist is James Miller, but the work would have been heavily based on a partially coloured sketch by Sydney Parkinson, Sir Joseph Banks' botanical artist who was present when the species was first collected at Endeavour River, Australia. A digital reproduction of an illustration of a species identified as Banksia ericifolia. Watercolour-on-paper drawing of Banksia serrata by John Frederick Mille Barringtonia calyptrata c1798 by Frederick Polydore Nodder

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Acacia cunninghamii from Banks' Florilegium, engraved by Daniel MacKenzie (1770-1780), printed in 1900 by order of the British Museum.