A date palm tree (Phoenix dactylifera) and segments of the fruit bordered by six scenes illustrating its use by man. Coloured lithograph, c. 1840.

[c. 1840]

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; border 22.5 x 18 cm

The date palm. embryo date opened date. eating dates. Palm Sunday. mats and baskets of palm leaves. feeding cattle on date stones. drinking arrack. using palm wood

Wellcome Collection 28051i

One of a series of six prints illustrating economic plants and their uses: date palm (Wellcome Library no. 28051i), coffee (2052i), rubber (28053i), sugar cane (28057i), tea (28058i), tobacco (28060i)