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.

An Italian bandit offering a French gentleman the piebald one of three 'hottentot' (steatopygous) women; representing Louis Sambon and Raphael Blanchard at an international medical congress. Halftone after M.S. Orr, 1913.

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.

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

Kokerite palms yield oil from the seeds, and their fronds are used as thatching material

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.

Leaves of the fan palm are the source of vegetable 'horse' hair used in upholstery, the young buds are edible

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

Bible. N.T. Matthew 2.12-22. A palm stretches out above the family. The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew says that of a palm bent down to yield dates to the travellers. Mary's pregnancy suggsts the return from Egypt, but Chereau's (and Vorsterman's) lettering implies the journey to Egypt

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

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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.

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Palms

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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.

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