A Branch of the Bread-Fruit with the Fruit

The Breadfruit was collected and distributed by Bligh as a possible source of high-energy food for British slaves in the Caribbean. John Frederick Miller 1759 &#8211 1796 was an English illustrator, mainly of botanical subjects. Miller was the son of the artist Johann Sebastian M�ller (1715- c.1790). He was one of the artists who converted Sydney Parkinson’s drawings from James Cook’s first voyage into paintings. He accompanied Joseph Banks on his expedition to Iceland in 1772. From the rare English edition of Cook’s first voyage account by Hawkesworth.