. "1745Z"^^ . "Sydney Parkinson (c. 1745 \u2013 26 January 1771) was a Scottish Quaker, botanical illustrator and natural history artist.Parkinson was employed by Joseph Banks to travel with him on James Cook's first voyage to the Pacific in 1768, in HMS Endeavour. Parkinson made nearly a thousand drawings of plants and animals collected by Banks and Daniel Solander on the voyage. He had to work in difficult conditions, living and working in a small cabin surrounded by hundreds of specimens."@en . "Parkinson, Sydney"@en . "1771Z"^^ . "British artist" . .