'Musa Cliffortiana' [Clifford's banana plant] Product:Canvas 'Dante and the Divine Comedy'

'Dante and the Divine Comedy' (The Comedy Illuminating Florence)

Yeomen of the Guard rush forward

'Crossing the Brook'

'Lord Bearsted'

'Musa Cliffortiana' [Clifford's banana plant] Product:Canvas 'Dante and the Divine Comedy'Botanical studies of the leaves, flowers, stamen and other structures of a banana plant belonging to the banker and Dutch East India Company director George Clifford (1685 1760). Clifford's estate and gardens were at Hartenkamp in Holland. This banana was grown there in a heated glasshouse and is thought to a hybrid of Musa acuminate and Musa balbisiana and therefore a cultivar plantain. It was among the first, if not the first, plant of this type to