'The Banksia pyriformis' Size:S: 36 x 28cm Sir Joseph Richards

Sir Joseph Richards

Cortina d'Ampezzo

Tablet on a house over Bull Head Court

all wearing very superior and sanctimonious expressions

'The Banksia pyriformis' Size:S: 36 x 28cm Sir Joseph RichardsBotanical study of the woody pear (Xylomelum pyriforme) a tree native to Australia and first collected by Sir Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander. Plate 21 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales by John White (J. Debrett, London, 1790). The accompanying text describes this plant as 'Banksia with solitary flowers, ovate downy capsules, and lance shaped entire smooth leaves'. The plate is inscribed: 'The Banksia pyriformis. Published as the Act