Drawn in 1770. Restored for your wall.
The Old Man Banksia (Banksia serrata) was illustrated on the Endeavour voyage and published in the Joseph Banks Florilegium in 1773. We restore plates like this one in Australia and print them to order. Historically sourced, museum-quality botanical art, sized for the wall you actually have.
Find your print in five questionsFrom $54.95 AUD. Free shipping worldwide.
FSC-certified paper250gsm matte uncoated archival
Made to orderPrinted when you order it, no warehouse
1% to reforestation1% of sales to native Australian reforestation
The plate before the print
In 1770 the Endeavour reached the east coast of Australia. On board was Sydney Parkinson, the young illustrator Joseph Banks brought to record plants no European had drawn. Banksia serrata, the Old Man Banksia, was one of them.
Parkinson drew the species around 1770. He died on the voyage home. The plate was published in the Joseph Banks Florilegium in 1773, three years after he first saw the flower spike.
The species is still where he found it. Old Man Banksia grows in NSW coastal heath and the sclerophyll forest of the eastern seaboard, gnarled and fire-marked and largely unchanged.
The illustration spent the next 250 years in archives most people will never visit. We think it belongs on a wall.
Restored, not redrawn
Every line in this print is Parkinson's. Nothing is repainted and nothing is reimagined.
Restoration starts with a high-resolution scan of the original plate. We remove two centuries of foxing, creases and scanning artefacts, then recover colour and detail lost to time. The work is slow and most of it is invisible. That is the point.
Each plate is prepared at 6000 by 9000 pixels. That is enough resolution to hold Parkinson's line work cleanly at every size we print, up to the 70 by 100.
Twenty-two plates in the range. The quiz finds yours.
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What the restoration is printed on
A careful restoration deserves a surface that holds it.
250gsm FSC-certified matte uncoated archival paper, natural white, 0.29mm thick. Heavier than a poster, with no gloss to fight the line work.
Durable pine, 20 to 25mm thick, in natural timber, white, dark wood and black. Glazed with shatterproof plexiglass. Lighter to ship than glass and safer when you are hanging art in a rental.
The 30 by 40 sits well above a desk. The 50 by 70 holds a wall on its own. The 70 by 100 is the statement size, for the one wall that can carry it.
Sizes and prices
Most people start with the 50 by 70. All prices in AUD.
Sits well above a desk
Unframed $54.95 / Framed $139.95
Holds a wall on its own
Unframed $79.95 / Framed $239.95
Statement size
Unframed $109.95 / Framed $369.95
Free shipping worldwide, no minimum order.
Not sure which size or species suits your space. The quiz narrows it down in five questions.
What each size looks like on a wall
Nothing here sits in a warehouse
Every print is made when you order it. No stock runs, no remainders, no waste.
Take the Find Your Print quiz or go straight to the species you already know you want.
Australian orders are printed in Australia by our print partner. Closer printing means shorter shipping distance.
Made to order takes a little longer than a warehouse. The print that arrives was made for you, not for a forecast.
Claims you can check
Most environmental claims in this category name nothing you can verify. We would rather name less and have it hold up.
The paper is FSC-certified, which covers the forestry behind every sheet we print on. Made to order means nothing is produced that nobody bought.
And 1% of sales goes to native Australian reforestation. Banksia serrata has held NSW coastal heath together for a long time. Putting a fraction of every sale back into country like that seemed like the least the prints could do.
22 plates. The Banksia is one of them.
Australian natives and species from the Northern Hemisphere archives, restored the same way.
Common questions
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Two and a half centuries is long enough in an archive
Parkinson drew the Old Man Banksia around 1770. The plate has waited a long time for a wall.
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