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Concept

Coconut palm

Images

  • 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.
  • Palm tree (Cocos nucifera?) in arid landscape. Watercolour, 1862.
  • Coconut palm (Cocos nucifera): flowering stem and floral segments. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1807, after J. Ihle.
  • A man climbing a coconut palm (Cocos nucifera L.) which stands by a banana plant (Musa sp.), in a waterside setting in Bombay, India. Engraving by J. Shury after J. Forbes, 1768.
  • Coconuts and trees (Cocos nucifera), a cinnamon tree (Cinnamomum verum) and pinang tree (Areca catechu), in a tropical landscape. Line engraving after J. Nieuhoff.
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Catalogue

    • Archives and manuscripts

    M0001994: Line illustration depicting 3 different types of palms, captioned Diplothemium maritimum, Cocos nucifera and Attalea compta

    | Date: 17 June 1931 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/18/70
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Pictures
    • Online

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

    | Date: 1862 | Reference: 22217i
    • Pictures

    A European gentleman is carried in a sedan chair with louvred windows by a group of men in oriental costume carrying spears behind a backdrop of palm trees with hanging coconuts. Coloured aquatint by J. Wells after C. Gold, 1804.

    Gold, Charles, -1842. | Date: 27 Nov 1804 | Reference: 640686i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Coconuts and trees (Cocos nucifera), a cinnamon tree (Cinnamomum verum) and pinang tree (Areca catechu), in a tropical landscape. Line engraving after J. Nieuhoff.

    Nieuhof, Johannes, 1618-1672. | Date: [1682] | Reference: 20315i
    • Archives and manuscripts

    M0001995: Line illustration of Cocos nucifera with details of the palm and the nut

    | Date: 17 June 1931 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/18/71
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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