The pineapple 1535-1985




1535 Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés: La historia general de las Indias (with first picture of the pineapple)
Libro 7, capitulo 13 manuscript from Real Academia de Historia Madrid (l.), as in book (r.)



1575 André Thevet: La Cosmographie Universelle, vol.2 livre 21 page 936 (l.)
1578 Christóbal Acosta: Tractado de las drogas, page 349 (r., woodcut)



c.1580 Jacopo Ligozzi : 'Bromelia ananas' (l., drawing, Uffizi Gallery, Florence)
1585 John White: expedition Walter Raleigh (m., drawing, British Museum, London)
attributed to John White: in Sir Hans Sloane collection, possibly of earlier date and by other artist (r., drawing, British Museum, London)



1590 anonymous: Histoire Naturelle des Indes - 'the Drake Manuscript' (l., The Morgan Library & Museum, New York)
1621 Honorius Philiponus: Nova typis transacta navigatio (r., engraving)



1600-1625 Sir Hans Sloane collection: descriptions of Indian plants (l., vellum, British Museum)
1640 Georg Marcgrave (?): Libri principis or "Manuals" (r., drawing attr. to Georg Marcgrave or Zacharias Wagener, orig. Biblioteka Jagiellonska Krakow)



1640 Georg Marcgrave (?): Libri principis or "Manuals" (drawings attr. to Georg Marcgrave or Zacharias Wagener, orig. Biblioteka Jagiellonska Krakow)



1624-1627 Frei Christovão de Lisboa: Historia dos animaes e arvores do Maranhão (l.)
1640 John Parkinson: Theatrum botanicum, page 1626 (r.)



1641 Matthaeus Merian: Florilegium renovatum, copper engraved plate after 1612 Johann Theodor de Bry: Florilegium Novum (l.)
1646 Matthaeus Merian: Der Fruchtbringenden Gesellschaft - Nahmen/Vorhaben/Gemählde und Wörter, plate 274 (r.)



1648 Georg Marcgrave: Historae Rerum Naturalium Brasiliae, Liber 1 page 33, in Willem Piso: Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (l.)
1658 Jacobus Bontius: Historiae naturalis & medicae Indiae Orientalis, Liber 6 page 145, in Willem Piso: De Indiae utriusque re naturali et medica (r.)



1633 Joannes de Laet: Novus orbis seu descriptiones Indiae Occidentalis, page 565 (l.)
c.1652 Caspar Schmalkalden: Die wundersamen Reisen des Caspar Schmalkalden nach West- und Ostindien (manuscript, m.)
1658 Charles de Rochefort: Histoire naturelle et morale des îles Antilles de l'Amérique, page 103 (r.)



1656 Michael Boym: Flora Sinensis (l., hand-coloured edition, Natural History Museum)
1688 Charles Plumier: aquarel (r.)



1660-1664 Christian Mentzel: Theatrum Rerum Naturalium Brasiliae, vol.4 Icones Vegetalium (l., drawing attr. to Albert Eckhout, orig. Bibl. Jagiellonska)
1673 Richard Ligon: A true and exact history of the island of Barbadoes, page 84 (r.)



1688-89 Jan & Maria Moninckx: Moninckx atlas, vol.1 plate 36 (l.)
1692 Hendrik van Rheede tot Drakestein: Hortus Indicus Malabaricus, vol.11 plate 1 (r.)



1692 Hendrik van Rheede tot Drakestein: Hortus Indicus Malabaricus, vol.11 plate 2 (l.)
1697 Jan Commelin: Horti Medici Amstelodamensis rariorum plantarum historia, vol.1 plate 57 (r.)



c.1685-1688 Stephanus Cosijn: Hortus Regius Honselaerdicensis (l., orig. in color, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze)
1694 Pierre Pomet: Histoire generale des drogues, livre VII page 235 (r.)



1696 Abraham Munting: Naauwkeurige beschryving der aardgewassen, fig.134 (l.) an fig.135 (r., handcolored edition)



1700 Joseph Pitton de Tournefort: Institutiones Rei Herbariae, vol.3 plate 426,427 and 428



1694 Joanne Antonio Cavazzi & Fortunatum Alamandini: Historische Beschreibung der in dem untern Occidentalischen Mohrenland ligenden
drey Königreichen / Congo, Matamba und Angola , page 46 (l.)
1708 François Leguat: Voyage et Aventures de François Leguat et de ses compagnons en deux isles désertes des Indes Orientales, vol.2 page 65 (m.)
1747 Georg Rumphius: Herbarium Amboinense, vol.5 plate 81 (r., publication delayed from 1697)



1705 Maria Sibylla Merian: Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium, plate 1 (l.) and plate 2 (r.)



1714 Johann Christoph Volckamer: Continuation der Nürnbergischen Hesperidum, plate 1-5



1716 Michael Friedrich Lochner: Commentatio de Ananasa (first monograph on the pineapple)



1698 Francois Froger: Relation d'un voyage fait en 1695, 1696 et 1697 ..., page 76 (l., engraving by C. Inselin)
1719 Michael Valentini: Viridarium reformatum, part of plate 218 (r.), based on engraving by Matthaeus Merian



1720 Theodorus Netscher: Pineapple grown in Sir Matthew Decker's garden, Richmond, Surrey (l., oil on canvas, Fitzwilliam Museum)
1723 Richard Bradley: A general treatise of husbandry and gardening, page 206 (r.)



1732 Johann Jacob Dillenius: Hortus Elthamensis seu plantarum rariorum, vol.1 plate 21 and plate 22 (A. lucidus)



1739 Noël Antoine Pluche: Le spectacle de la nature, vol.2 page 211



1737 Pieter de La Court van der Voort: Byzondere aenmerkingen .... (l.)
1737 Johann Wilhelm Weinmann: Phytanthoza Iconographia, vol.1 plate 112 (r.)



1737 Johann Wilhelm Weinmann: Phytanthoza Iconographia, vol.1 plate 113 (l.) and plate 114 (r.)



1737 Johann Wilhelm Weinmann: Phytanthoza Iconographia, vol.1 plate 115 (l.) and plate 116 (r.)



1742 Jean Baptiste Labat: Nouveau voyage aux îsles de l'Amérique, vol.1 page 416 (l., engraving)
c.1749 Carl Fredrik von Schantz: from a manuscript on a voyage to Canton by the Swedish ship Göta Lejon 1746-1749 (r.)



1750 Christoph Jacob Trew: Plantae Selectae (plates by Georg Dionysius Ehret), plate 2 (l.) and plate 3 (r., A. lucidus)



1750 Griffith Hughes: The Natural History of Barbados, plate 21 (l.)
1751-1757 Denis Diderot & Jean Le Rond d'Alembert: Encyclopédie - Histoire Naturelle, plate 96 (r.)



1761 Lars Nielsen Svare: Almindelig historie over reiser til lands og vands, detail of vol.16 plate 3 (l.)
c.1765 anonymous: Notes sur la Guadeloupe (m., manuscript John Carter Brown Library, Providence)
18th century anonymous: watercolour (r., manuscript Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle)



1767 Andreas Happe: Abbildung auslaendischer Materialien, plate 6 (l.)
1772-1793 Giorgio Bonelli: Hortus Romanus, vol.1 plate 72 (r.)



1773 Christoph Jacob Trew: Herbarium blackwellianum Emendatum et Auctum, vol.6 plate 567 (l.) and plate 568 (r.)



1774 Nicolas François Regnault: La botanique mise à la portée de tout le monde vol.3 (handcoloured engravings)



1775-1778 Pierre Joseph Buchoz: Histoire Universelle du Règne Végétal, vol.7 plate 49 (l.)
c.1780-1795 anonymous: codex Baltazar Jaime Martínez Compañón (r., manuscript Library Royal Palace, Madrid)



before 1785 anonymous: Johannes le Francq van Berkhey collection (l., aquarel, Real Jardín Botánico, Madrid)
undated, anonymous: Mountain pineapple (r., oil on canvas, Real Jardín Botánico, Madrid)



1789 John Abercrombie: The hot house gardener on the general culture of the pine-apple ...., engraved plate (l.)
1790 Johannes Zorn: Icones Plantarum Medicinalium, vol.6 plate 513 (m.) and plate 514 (r.)



18/19th century, 'Les vélins du Muséum' a.o. Claude Aubriet, Jean Joubert, portefeuille 11 folio 26-33
(watercolour on vellum, each folio c.46x33 cm., Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris)



1788 Denis Dodart & Nicolas Robert: Recueil des plantes gravées par ordre du roi Louis XIV, vol.1 plate 32 (l.), drawing end 17th century
1805 Jean Louis Prevost: Collection des fleurs et des fruits, plate 44 (r.)



1792 Luigi Castiglioni: Storia delle piante forestiere le piu importanti . . ., vol.2 plate 41 (l., engraving)
1796 John Gabriel Stedman: Narrative of a five years expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam, vol.2 plate 64 (r., engraving)
c.1800 Hipólito Ruiz & José Pavon: Royal Botanical Expedition Peru 1777-1788 (r., watercolour on paper, Real Jardín Botanico, Madrid)



c.1798-1810 anonymous (Chinese school): (watercolour on paper, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection)



c.1800 Wang Lui Chi: (l., watercolour on paper, RHS Lindley Library)
c.1800 anonymous: (r., watercolour on paper, RHS Lindley Library)



c.1803-1818 William Farquhar collection (Chinese school): Drawings of plants from Malacca (watercolour on paper)



c.1812-1831 John Reeves collection (Chinese school): (watercolour on paper)



1813 Curtis's Botanical Magazine, vol.38 plate 1554 (l.)
1792 Jean Baptiste A.P.M. de Lamarck: Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature - Botanique (1791-1823) tome 1 vol.2 plate 223 (r.)



c.1800 Pierre François Ledoulx: in album 'Regne Végétal' (compilation of watercolours on paper, RHS Lindley Library)



1815 Pierre Joseph Redouté: Les Lilliacées, vol.8 plate 455 (l.) and plate 456 (r.)



1804-1812 George Brookshaw: Pomona Britanica; or, a collection of the most esteemed fruits, pl.45 'Black Antigua', pl.40 'Black Jamaica' and pl. 43 'Brown Havana Pine'



1804-1812 George Brookshaw: Pomona Britanica, plate 41 'Riply Pine' (l.)
1823 George Brookshaw: The Horticultural Repository, vol.2 plate 55-56, 'Smooth Leaved Green Antigua Pine' (m.)
1815 William Hooker: 'Black Jamaica Pine', drawing made in commission for the Royal Horticultural Society (r.)



1817-1819 William Hooker: 'Enville Pine, Queen Pine and Welbeck Seedling Pine' (l. to r.), drawings made for the Royal Horticultural Society



1821-1829 Michel Etienne Descourtilz: Flore médicale des Antilles, vol.1 plate 36 (l.), vol.5 plate 341 (m.) and vol.5 plate 342 (r.)



c.1826 Iconographia Taurinensis (1752-1868): vol.49 plate 18 (watercolor painting by Angela Bottione, Orto Botanico di Torino)



1827 The Botanical Register: vol.13 plate 1081 (l., A. bracteatus)
1828-1832 Pierre Corneille van Geel: Sertum Botanicum (r., A. bracteatus)



1824 Johann Simon Kerner: Hortus Sempervirens, vol.56 plate 661 (l.)
1828 Charles McIntosh: The practical gardener and modern horticulturist, page 502 'Queen Pine' (r.)



1832 Annales de Flore et de Pomone: plate 20 (l., A. lucidus) and plate 40 (r.)



1828-1830 John Lindley: The Pomological Magazine, vol.1 plate 29 (l., Otaheite pine-apple) and vol.3 plate 134 (r., Ripley pine-apple),
drawing Augusta Innes Withers, engraving S. Watts



1841 John Lindley: Pomologia Britannica, vol.1 plate 1 (wave-leaved pine-apple)
earlier published in 1828 John Lindley: The Pomological Magazine, vol.1 plate 1



1843-1846 Etienne Denisse: Flore d'Amérique, dessinée d'après nature sur les lieux, plates 43,64 and 114 (chromolithographs)



1833 Francois Pierre Chaumeton: Flore médicale, vol.1 plate 23 (l.)
1850 J. Knapp: drawing produced for archduke Johann of Austria (r., Österreichische Nationalbibliothek)



c.1850 Anton Hartinger: watercolour drawing



1850-1853 Mrs. D.E. Smith: The fruits of the Lima market



1853 La Belgique Horticole: vol.3 page 125 (l., 'Ananas d'Otahiti') and 1857 vol.7 page 223 (r., 'Ananas de Ripley')



1858 Curtis's Botanical Magazine: vol.84 plate 5025 (l., A. bracteatus)
1868 Elizabeth Twining: Illustrations of the natural orders of plants, vol.2 plate 138 (r.)



1872 La Belgique Horticole: vol.22 plate 16-17 (variegated A. comosus, published as A. porteana)



1878 La Belgique Horticole: vol.28 plate 4 and plate 5 (A. macrodontes, also treated as Pseudananas sagenarius)



1878 Francisco Manuel Blanco: Flora de Filipinas, vol.2 plate 458 (l.)
1880 Marianne North: oil on canvas (r.)



c.1872-1884 Mrs. C.W.W. Bewsher: watercolour drawing (l., image courtesy National History Museum UK)
c.1883-1888 Agustín Stahl: watercolour drawing (r., image courtesy Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History USA)



1892 C.A.M. Lindman: watercolour drawing (image courtesy Swedish Museum of Natural History)



1877, 1896 H. Zippel: botanical educational plates (the one from 1877 only right half)



c.1900 A. Peter: botanical educational plate



1887 Hermann Adolph Köhler: Medizinal Pflanzen, vol.4 plate 21 (l.)
1939 Georgia O'Keeffe: 'Pineapple bud' (r., oil on canvas)



1964 Margaret Mee: Ananas bracteatus (l., gouache)
c.1985 Paul Jones: Ananas comosus (r., acryl painting)

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