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  • Banana (Musa coccinea Andr.): fruiting shoot with leaf and numbered sections of flowers. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.
  • Plantain banana (Musa x paradisiaca L.): nine sections of flower and fruit. Coloured engraving by J.J. or J.E. Haid, c.1750, after G.D. Ehret.
  • A white man hides behind a make-shift shelter made from banana-leaves watching the beheading of a naked black man with a hatchet. Wood engraving by H.S. Melville.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • A man wearing a white vest and denim jacket holds a peeled banana with a condom representing an advertisement for safe sex by the New Zealand AIDS Foundation. Colour lithograph by Albert Sword.
  • A man wearing a white vest and denim jacket holds a peeled banana with a condom representing an advertisement for safe sex by the New Zealand AIDS Foundation. Colour lithograph by Albert Sword.
  • 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-.
  • 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.
  • "The adventures of Mr Preso": a condom holding an ice cream, a bunch of flowers, a heart and a banana; advertisement for condom cards. Colour lithograph by Pascal Blondeau, 1994, for ADIS, Association Départementale d'Information sur le SIDA et de Solidarité.
  • "The adventures of Mr Preso" with a condom holding various items including an ice cream, a bunch of flowers, a heart and a banana; advertisement for condom cards by ADIS, Association Départementale d'Information sur le SIDA et de Solidarité. Colour lithograph by Pascal, 1985.
  • A fiatooka, or burial place, on Tongatapu island. Engraving by W. Ellis, 1784, after J. Webber, ca. 1783.
  • Plantain trees (Musa x paradisiaca) growing by a waterfall with two women resting beneath them. Coloured lithograph by J.B.Kidd, c.1840, after himself.
  • Indian pastry chef and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Indian agriculture and crops. Gouache drawing.
  • 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.
  • Indian agriculture: drawing water for crops. Gouache drawing.
  • Cupid inspiring plants with Love, in a tropical landscape. Engraving by F. Bartolozzi and H. Landseer, c.1812, after P.Reinagle.
  • Cupid inspiring plants with Love, in a tropical landscape. Coloured stipple engraving by T.Burke, ca. 1805, after P. Reinagle.
  • Cupid inspiring plants with Love, in a tropical landscape. Coloured stipple engraving by T.Burke, ca. 1805, after P. Reinagle.
  • Giant water lilies (Victoria amazonica) on a lake bordered by two Guianan men and plants. Coloured lithographic reproduction of an engraving by M. Gauci, c. 1814, after C. Bentley.
  • If 1 in 3 gay men who have HIV don't know they're infected, how can you? / Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • Eat more fruit and keep fit / Retail Fruit Trade Federation Ltd.
  • Eat more fruit and keep fit / Retail Fruit Trade Federation Ltd.
  • Eat more fruit and keep fit / Retail Fruit Trade Federation Ltd.
  • One of forty-nine coloured gouache illustrations.
  • Africa: indigenous plants and mammals of Ethiopia. Engraving, 1682.
  • Assam, India: a village of grass-roofed houses surrounded by palm trees, enclosed by a bamboo fence. Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).
  • Dracula's blood shake : healthy eating : miscellaneous / Tesco.
  • Dracula's blood shake : healthy eating : miscellaneous / Tesco.