Bananas
1831
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1831
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Bananas is a 1831 paint by Unknown, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a bunch of bananas. The artist drew it on special paper from the West, which was imported to China. This was a time when people in Britain were really interested in plants and animals from other parts of the world. They would often bring back pictures of these things. You can learn more about this kind of art at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A rectangular watercolor painting on imported Western paper shows a botanical study of bananas, with a bunch of yellow-green fruit beneath a curved palm leaf and one half cut open to reveal interior details. The work is mounted on brown-tinted paper. It reflects 19th-century British interest in unfamiliar flora, acquired in 1886 with no further provenance details recorded.
Read the full account in the museum source.
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