While the holy family rest on the way to Egypt, an angel bends a palm tree to provide them with dates. Etching.

Krakatoa: plantain trees (Musa x paradisiaca) and coconut palms (Cocos nucifera) in a forest clearing, with native man and his hut. Coloured soft-ground etching after J. Webber, 1788.

A man on horseback surveys his house in a tobacco plantation in Cuba. Tinted lithograph, mid-19th century.

The resurrected Christ appears before terrified soldiers. Etching by B. Bartoccini after F. Overbeck, 1848.

Various leaf forms, leaf venation, bud arrangements and woody stems. Watercolour by I. Sawkins.

Cluster of fruit of a date palm (Phoenix dactylifera). Colour aquatint by G. Carocci, 1838, after I. Palmerini, 1837.

Krakatoa: fan palm (Chamaerops humilis L.) with surrounding tropical forest and native woman. Coloured soft-ground etching after J. Webber, 1788.

Louis Pasteur, with two dogs (referring to his work on rabies), a palm and a snake around a bowl (indicating achievement in hygiene). Chromolithograph.

A palm tree with detailed paintings of the trunk and leaf. Watercolour, 1849.

Palm tree (Cocos nucifera?) in arid landscape. Watercolour, 1862.

Screwpines (Pandanus species) covered with climbing plants, surrounded by lush tropical vegetation. Wood engraving, c. 1867, after C. Whymper.

A palm tree (Iriartella setigera (Mart.) H. Wendl.) in fruit in Guyana. Watercolour by E.A. Goodall, 1846.

Jak tree (Artocarpus heterophyllus) with fruit in the Society Islands. Pen drawing.

A large kokerite palm (Maximiliana maripa) and the artist drawing it, in a tropical landscape. Chromolithograph by L. Stroobant, c. 1855.

1 print : etching with engraving ; platemark 12.7 x 17 cm

Three papaya trees (Carica papaya) with lizards, dodos and a man hunting in an exotic, tropical landscape. Etching, c. 1671.

1 print : soft-ground etching, with watercolour ; platemark 43 x 31.3 cm

1 print : line engraving ; image and border 30.7 x 22 cm

The Virgin Mary, pregnant with James, and Joseph voyage back from Egypt with the child Jesus. Engraving after P.P. Rubens.

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Arecaceae

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Jak tree (Artocarpus heterophyllus) with fruit in the Society Islands. Pen drawing.

A large kokerite palm (Maximiliana maripa) and the artist drawing it, in a tropical landscape. Chromolithograph by L. Stroobant, c. 1855.

Three papaya trees (Carica papaya) with lizards, dodos and a man hunting in an exotic, tropical landscape. Etching, c. 1671.

Krakatoa: fan palm (Chamaerops humilis L.) with surrounding tropical forest and native woman. Coloured soft-ground etching after J. Webber, 1788.

The Virgin Mary, pregnant with James, and Joseph voyage back from Egypt with the child Jesus. Engraving after P.P. Rubens.

Arecaceae

Images from the collections

Images referencing Arecaceae

Works from the collections

Jak tree (Artocarpus heterophyllus) with fruit in the Society Islands. Pen drawing.

A large kokerite palm (Maximiliana maripa) and the artist drawing it, in a tropical landscape. Chromolithograph by L. Stroobant, c. 1855.

Three papaya trees (Carica papaya) with lizards, dodos and a man hunting in an exotic, tropical landscape. Etching, c. 1671.

Krakatoa: fan palm (Chamaerops humilis L.) with surrounding tropical forest and native woman. Coloured soft-ground etching after J. Webber, 1788.

The Virgin Mary, pregnant with James, and Joseph voyage back from Egypt with the child Jesus. Engraving after P.P. Rubens.

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