The pineapple figured in paintings and drawings etc.
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1578 Jean de Léry: Histoire d'un voyage faict en la terre du Brésil, Tupinambá indians (l., wood engraving)
related to (l.): undated from the Sloane volume of watercolours, associated with John White c.1540-1593 (r., British Museum)
1596 Jan Huygen van Linschoten: Itinerario, voyage ofte schipvaert van Jan Huygen van Linschoten naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien
(engraving by Johannis Baptista van Doetecum)
1621 Honorius Philiponus: Nova typis transacta navigatio, 'Carib Indians greet Europeans' (engraving)
1640 Albert Eckhout: Still life (l., oil on canvas, Nationalmuseet Copenhagen)
c.1651-1663 Andries Beeckman: 'Still life with exotic fruit and a white cockatoo' (r., oil on canvas)
1648 Willem Piso: Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (l.) and 1658 Willem Piso: De Indiae utriusque re naturali et medica (r.)
1665 Johan Nieuhof: Het gezantschap der Neerlandtsche Oost-Indischen Compagnie aan den grooten Tartarischen Cham,
den tegenwoordigen keizer van China - Algemeene beschryving van 't Ryk Sina following page 148 (engraving),
also on tin-glazed earthenware Delft tile, 43,5 x 48 cm. at Dyrham Park, UK (National Trust)
1629 John Parkinson: Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris, titleplate by Christopher Switzer (l., engraving)
c.1660-1670 anonymous: mural in castle Schwedt a.d. Oder, lost in WW2 (see also painting below)
1666 anonymous: 'Oost-Indisch marktstalletje' (oil on canvas, Rijksmuseum)
1652, 1650 Frans Post: details of paintings (oil on canvas, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (l.) and Historisches Museum Frankfurt (r.))
1662 Frans Post: 'Gezicht op Olinda' (oil on canvas, Rijksmuseum)
1667 Athanasius Kircher: China Monumentis Illustrata, page 188 (l.) and page 189 (r.)
1666 Sir Christopher Wren: design of St. Paul's Cathedral with elongated pineapple, not executed (l., All Souls College, Oxford)
c.1685-1710: pineapple on the towers of present St. Paul's Cathedral, London (m. and r.)
c.1675 anonymous: 'John Rose, the royal gardener, presenting a pineapple to king Charles II' (oil on canvas)
1668 Olfert Dapper: Naukeurige beschrijvinge der Afrikaensche gewesten, page 348 (l.)
1682 Simon de Vries: Curieuse aenmerckingen der bysonderste Oost- en Westindische verwonderens-waerdige dingen, plate after page 130 (r.)
1682 Johan Nieuhof: Joan Nieuhofs gedenkwaerdige zee en lantreize door de voornaemste landschappen van West en Oostindien,
titleplate (l.) and plate after page 238 of part 2 (r.)
1689-1690 after Albert Eckhout: detail of 'L'Éléphant' from 'Tenture des Indes', Manifacture des Gobelins (l., tapistry, Mobilier National Paris)
1692-1693 François Desportes after Albert Eckhout: drawings for tapistries (r., oil on paper, Cité de la Céramique, Sèvres)
c.1690 Jan Weenix: 'Agnes Block, Sybrand de Flines and two children at the country seat Vijverhof' (oil on canvas, Amsterdam Museum)
c.1690-1699 Jan Weenix: 'Portrait of a young woman and a little girl' (l., oil on canvas)
17th century anonymous: gilded silver cup, 22,5 x 6,5 cm. (r., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lille)
1690 anonymous (English school): 'Farming large pineapples', from a description of embassies to China (l., engraving)
1696 Jürgen Andersen: Orientalische Reise-Beschreibung, page 82 (r., engraving)
1692 Bartholomeus Brandon: titleplate of Hortus Regius Honselaerdicensis (l., vellum in drawing-book, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze)
1705 Georg Eberhard Rumphius: D'Amboinsche Rariteitenkamer vol.1, portrait by his son P.A. Rumphius, engraving by Jacobus de Later (r.)
1697 Jan Commelin: Horti Medici Amstelodamensis, vol.1 titleplate from several copies showing differences in coloring (copper engraving)
c.1696 Philip Tideman: 'Allegory of America' (drawing on paper)
c.1690-1705: 'La récolte des ananas' from 'L'Histoire de l'empereur de la Chine', Manifacture Beauvais (tapistry, J. Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles)
1719 Maria Sibylla Merian: Over de voortteeling en wonderbaerlyke veranderingen der Surinaemsche insecten, titleplate by Frederik Ottens (engraving).
1737 Alexander de Lavaux & J.G. de Lacroix: Chart of Suriname (print on silk, 186x215 cm, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam).
1721 Rudolf and Gerard Wetstein: Het Brittanische rijk in Amerika,
translation of 1708 John Oldmixon: The British empire in America, added engraving by Jan Goeree (l.)
1742 Gaetano Monti: Jacobi Zanonii rariorum stirpium historia, edition of 1675 Giacomo Zanoni: Istoria Botanica (added engraving, r.)
1748 Jorge Juan & Antonio de Ulloa: Relación Histórica del viage a la América Meridional pt.1 book1
1732 Robert Furber: Twelve months of fruits - october, drawing by Pieter Casteels (l., engraving)
1742 Jan van Huysum: Still life (r., oil on copper, National Trust)
c.1734-1783 Frans van der Mijn: 'Two parrots and some fruit' (l., oil on canvas)
c.1745 Joseph Anton Glantschnig: Europa und Asien (r., oil on canvas, Mainfränkisches Museum Würzburg)
1750 after Peter Babel: Trade-card of Negri and Wetten, confectioners at the Pineapple, Berkeley Square, London
(l., etching/engraving, paper, print by Ignatius Fougeron)
1754 : Draft of trade-card of Henry Scott, gardener, of Weybridge, Surrey (r., paper, print by Francis Vivares)
1740 Nicolaas Verkolje: 'David van Mollem at his estate Zijdebalen near Utrecht' (l., oil on wood)
1775-1799 anonymous (Dutch school): decoration on wall over door (r., oil on canvas)
c.1774-1777 Jan van Os: Still life (oil on canvas)
1779 Gerard van Spaendonck: Still life (l., oil on canvas)
1795 Corneille van Spaendonck: Still life (r., oil on canvas)
1761 The pineapple at Dunmore Park (l., photo National Trust)
1775 after C.S. Blake: 'James Sibbald, gardener to Thomas Delaval' (r.)
1781 after Jean Michel Moreau le Jeune, engraving by Isidore Stanislas Helman: 'Le souper fin' (l., Musée Carnavalet, Paris)
1783 Charles Bretherton: 'Mrs. Weltje in her shop in Pall Mall' (r., engraving)
1763 Miguel Cabrera: Casta painting from Mexico (l., oil on canvas).
c.1775-1800 anonymous: Casta painting from Peru (r., oil on canvas, Museo de América, Madrid)
1775 anonymous: Casta painting from Mexico (l., oil on canvas)
1775 S. Le Masurier: 'Women in house in Martinique' (r., oil on canvas, Ministère de l'Outre Mer, Paris)
1783 Vicente Albán: 'Yndio Yumbo de las inmediaciones de Quito' (oil on canvas, Museo de América, Madrid).
1780 Filippo Salvadore Gilii: Saggio di storia Americana . . . vol.1, 'Veduta di un Campo Indiano' (l., engraving by L. Guerrini)
1794 after Benjamin West: 'An Indian priest addressing Columbus in the island of Cuba', engraving published
in Bryan Edwards: The history of the British colonies in the West Indies 1801 (r.)
1790 Abraham Teixeira de Mattos: Still life (l., oil on canvas)
c.1790-1799 Willem van Leen: Still life (r., oil on canvas)
1789 Paulus Theodorus van Brussel: Still life (l., oil on canvas, National Gallery London)
undated Jan Frans van Dael (1764-1840): Still life (r., oil on canvas)
c.1800 Abraham van Strij: Still life (oil on canvas)
c.1800 George William Sartorius: Still life (oil on canvas)
1794 after Henry Singleton, engraving by Charles Knight: 'Scarcity in India' (l., stipple engraving)
c.1807 Richard Westall: 'Vertumnus and Pomona' (r., oil on panel)
1803 Jan Frans van Dael: 'The tomb of Julie' (l., oil on canvas)
c.1810 Jean Louis Prevost: Still life (r., oil on canvas, Fitzwilliam Museum)
1797 James Gillray: detail of 'Hero's recruiting at Kelsey's; or guard-day at St. James's' (l., hand-coloured etching)
1804 Charles Williams: 'The cabinet dinner or a political meeting' (r., hand-coloured etching)
c.1800 Wybrand Hendriks: Still life (l. oil on canvas)
1810 Jacobus Linthorst: Still life (r. oil on canvas)
1813 Alexander von Humboldt: 'Radeau de la rivière de Guayaquil' (detail plate 63), in 'Vue des cordillères et monumens des peuples indigènes de l'Amérique'
(stipple engraving by P.A. Marchais after A. v. Humboldt, fruit and flowers after P.J.F. Turpin)
1815 Frederick Nutt: The complete confectioner, 1815 edition (l., frontispiece of book)
undated José Teófilo de Jesus (1758-1847): 'Allegoria de América' (r., Museu de Arte da Bahia)
1826 George Cruikshank: 'Exhibition extraordinary in the Horticultural Room' (hand-coloured etching)
undated Louis Leopold Boilly (1761-1845): 'Le gourmand' (l., oil on canvas)
undated Petrus van Schendel (1806-1870): 'Candlelight' (r., oil on canvas)
1815 Jean François Bony: Still life (l., oil on canvas, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lille)
c.1820 Mary Bradley: Still life (r., pastel, Victoria & Albert Museum London)
c.1821-1824 Augustus Earle: 'Negro fandango scene, Campo St. Anna near Rio de Janeiro' (watercolor, Rex Nan Kivell Collection - National Library of Australia)
1796 John Gabriel Stedman: Narrative of a five year expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam
vol.2 plate 68: 'Family of negro slaves from Loango' (l., engraving by W. Blake)
1827-1835 Johann Moritz Rugendas: Voyage pittoresque dans le Brésil, div.2 plate 7: 'Nègresses de Rio de Janeiro' (r., lithograph)
1827-1835 Johann Moritz Rugendas: Voyage pittoresque dans le Brésil, div.4 plate 8: 'Recolte du café' (lithograph)
1835 Jean Baptiste Debret: Voyage pittoresque et historique au Brésil vol.2 plate 24 (l.) and 42 (r.)
1839 Pierre Jacques Benoit: Illustrations de voyage à Surinam, titleplate and part of plate 11 (drawing by Benoit, engraving P. Lauters)
1811 William Jowit Titford: Sketches toward a Hortus Botanicus Americanus (l., frontispiece)
1846-1848 Philipp Franz von Siebold & P. Melvill de Carnbee: 'Les fruits de Java', plate from journal 'Le moniteur des Indes Orientales' (r.)
1842 Sir Edwin Landseer: 'The marmozettes' (oil on canvas)
1842 George Lance: 'The burgomaster's dessert' (l., oil on canvas)
c.1840 anonymous (British school): 'Lady with a parasol and a pineapple' (r., watercolour on paper, Maritime Museum Greenwich)
1834 Antoine Chazal: 'Still life with budgerigar' (l., oil on canvas, Musée Condé, Chantilly)
1845 The Illustrated London News: 'Pine-apples, a penny a slice' (r., engraving)
undated Theodor Schroeder (19th century): Still life (l., oil on canvas)
undated Vinzenz Kreuzer (1809-1888): Still life (r., oil on canvas)
1836,1851 Josef Schuster: Still lifes (oil on canvas)
undated Johan Laurents Jensen (1800-1856): Still life (l., oil on canvas)
undated English school (19th century): Still life (r., oil on canvas, Middlethorpe Hall, North Yorkshire)
1848 Augustus Pugin: Wallpaper design for Houses of Parliament, London (l., pencil and watercolour on paper)
undated William Henry Hunt (1790-1864): 'A gardener in his potting shed' (r., pen and ink and watercolour on paper)
1850 The Illustrated London News: The Grand Banquet at York (l.)
1856 Otto Grashof: 'Marketplace in Rio de Janeiro with aquaduct and conventual church Santo Antônio' (r., oil on canvas lost in WW2)
undated Franz Xaver Petter (1791-1866): Still life (l. and r., oil on canvas)
1855 William Duffield: Still life, central part of painting (oil on canvas)
1860 Francisca Manoela Valadão: Still life (l., oil on canvas, Coleção Hecilda and Sérgio Fadel, Rio de Janeiro)
undated Agostinho da Mota: Still life (r., oil on canvas, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro)
1863 Henry Walter Bates: The naturalist on the river Amazons, titleplate vol.2 (drawing by Josiah Wood Whymper and Johann Baptist Zwecker)
undated John Sherrin (1819-1896): Still life (l., pencil, watercolour and bodycolour on paper)
c.1880 Frederick S. Batcheller: Still life (r., oil on canvas)
undated V. Chavigny (19th century): 'A picnic' (l., oil on canvas)
1888 Victor Patricio de Landaluze: 'Escena costumbrista (Cuba)' (r., oil on canvas)
1880 F. Faller: The Bahamian pineapple industry drawings
1881 Linley Sambourne: 'Madame Albani' in Punch's Fancy Portraits (l., engraving)
1897 Robert Wilson: 'Lord Beaconsfield at the banquet in the Guildhall (in 1876)', in The life and times of Queen Victoria vol.4 (r., engraving)
1878 Ramon Puiggari: 'The Spanish monarchs receive Columbus in Barcelona after his first voyage',
in Pelegrin Casabó y Pagés: Cristobal Colon, translated from Roselly de Lorgues: Christophe Colomb, 1856 (l., lithograph)
1907 Liebig company: trade card in series Occupations Enfantines: 'Enfants mexicains occupés à la récolte des ananas' (r., lithograph)
1908 music by Scott Joplin: 'Pine Apple Rag' (l., music composition)
1908: Postcard from Barbados (r.)
1885 : Gouvernementsgebouw Assen, Netherlands (l., stained glass)
c.1895 Pierre Auguste Renoir: Still life (r. oil on canvas)
1910-1914 Marc Chagall: 'Fruit bowl' (l., oil on canvas)
1901 Henry Thomas Bosdet: The last supper (detail), St. Lawrence parish church, Jersey, Channel Islands (r., stained glass)
c.1910 Delft-ware pottery
1951 Olga Costa: La vendedora de frutas (oil on canvas, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City)
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