Growing up with bananas / Tesco.

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.

5 a-day the easy way with bananas : quick and easy serving suggestions inside / Tesco.

Banana plant (Musa species): flowering and fruiting plant with stolons and separate floral segments and sectioned fruit, also a description of the plant's growth, anatomical labels and a scale bar. Etching by G. D. Ehret, c. 1742, after himself.

A man holding a peeled banana which is covered with a condom and has the logo of the Hot Rubber Company; advertising a brand of condoms for AIDS prevention. Colour lithograph by the Hot Rubber Company Deutschland, 199-.

Plantain banana (Musa paradisiaca L.): fruiting branch with sections of flowers and fruit. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.

Banana (Musa coccinea Andr.): fruiting shoot with leaf and numbered sections of flowers. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.

Two banana plants (Musa species) and a date palm tree. Coloured engraving, c. 1827.

A banana enclosed in a transparent bag representing an analogy with condoms and sexual protection as an AIDS prevention advertisement by AIDS Concern, Hong Kong. Colour lithograph by John Clang Photography, ca. 1997.

1 print : chromolithograph, printed in 8 colours

1 print : engraving ; platemark 25.7 x 40.4 cm

A fiatooka, or burial place, on Tongatapu island. Engraving by W. Ellis, 1784, after J. Webber, ca. 1783.

The new banana.

Indian agriculture: drawing water for crops. Gouache drawing.

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 29.5 x 41.8 cm

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Musa

Images from the collections

Images referencing Musa

Works from the collections

Banana (Musa coccinea Andr.): fruiting shoot with leaf and numbered sections of flowers. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.

A fiatooka, or burial place, on Tongatapu island. Engraving by W. Ellis, 1784, after J. Webber, ca. 1783.

The new banana.

Indian agriculture: drawing water for crops. Gouache drawing.

A banana enclosed in a transparent bag representing an analogy with condoms and sexual protection as an AIDS prevention advertisement by AIDS Concern, Hong Kong. Colour lithograph by John Clang Photography, ca. 1997.

Musa

Images from the collections

Images referencing Musa

Works from the collections

Banana (Musa coccinea Andr.): fruiting shoot with leaf and numbered sections of flowers. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.

A fiatooka, or burial place, on Tongatapu island. Engraving by W. Ellis, 1784, after J. Webber, ca. 1783.

The new banana.

Indian agriculture: drawing water for crops. Gouache drawing.

A banana enclosed in a transparent bag representing an analogy with condoms and sexual protection as an AIDS prevention advertisement by AIDS Concern, Hong Kong. Colour lithograph by John Clang Photography, ca. 1997.

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