Wellcome uses cookies.

Read our policy
Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
Events
818 results
  • WS. 143, Dhammacakkappavattana sutra sannaya. Sinhalese manuscript. Inscribed on palm-leaf.
  • Two camels and a wild ass before palm trees. Coloured chalk lithograph.
  • A palm tree (Bactris species) in Guyana. Watercolour by E.A. Goodall, 1846.
  • A palm tree with detailed paintings of the trunk and leaf. Watercolour, 1849.
  • Palmyra palm trees (Borassus flabellifer) near Madras, India. Watercolour by H. Schlagintweit, 1855.
  • Calabash or bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria): fruiting plant growing under a palm. Engraving.
  • Old trunk of a toddy palm tree (Caryota urens). Watercolour by H. Schlagintweit.
  • Statue of Saint Catherine of Alexandria. Represented with spiked wheel, sword and palm.
  • An old fortune-teller is looking at a young woman's palm. Engraving, 1670/1700.
  • Saint Eufemia. Various representations, she probably had sword and palm in this statue.
  • Water cart, horse-drawn, with men in turbans, beneath palm trees. Photograph, 1905/1915.
  • Murumuru palm tree (Astrocaryum murumuru Mart.) in Guyana. Watercolour by E.A. Goodall, 1846.
  • Two banana plants (Musa species) and a date palm tree. Coloured engraving, c. 1827.
  • An angel holds a palm branch and points towards the Holy Cross. Colour lithograph.
  • WS. 143, Dhammacakkappavattana sutra sannaya. Sinhalese manuscript. Inscribed on palm-leaf. Folio 12a.
  • WS. 143, Dhammacakkappavattana sutra sannaya. Sinhalese manuscript. Inscribed on palm-leaf. Folio 2a.
  • A palm tree found on the River Wenamu, Guyana. Watercolour by E.A. Goodall, 1846.
  • Anatomy: écorché palm of the hand showing muscles, nerves, vessels and tendons. Photograph, ca. 1900.
  • A woman having her palm read by a fortune-teller. Engraving after A.E. Chalon.
  • An oil palm tree, which harbours the mite that causes scrub typhus. Photograph, ca. 1930.
  • Scenery to be used in a toy theatre: a lake surrounded by palm trees. Lithograph.
  • Ancon Hospital grounds, Panama: street with wooden buildings lined with palm trees. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • A fortune-teller reading the palm of a soldier. Oil painting by Pietro Della Vecchia.
  • Closed incinerator, brick-built, in a clearing surrounded by palm trees, Africa (?). Photograph, 1905/1915.
  • A fortune-teller reading the palm of a soldier. Oil painting by Pietro Della Vecchia.
  • A fortune-teller reading the palm of a soldier. Oil painting by Pietro Della Vecchia.
  • Cartagena, Colombia: ruins of stone structures (graves ?) surrounded by palm trees. Photograph, 1905/1920 (?).
  • A fortune-teller reading the palm of a soldier. Oil painting by Pietro Della Vecchia.
  • Scabies: sores on a hand, palm upwards. Photograph by S. H. Cannon, ca. 1920 (?).
  • A fortune-teller reading the palm of a soldier. Oil painting by Pietro Della Vecchia.