FLO4680853: Long-horned beetle (Macrodontia cervicornis). Signed illustration RN (Richard Nodder). Copper engraving for the naturalist collection, published in 1796 by George Shaw and Frederick Nodder. Long-horned beetle, Macrodontia cervicornis. Vulnerable. Illustration signed RN (Richard Nodder). Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's “” The Naturalist's Miscellany””” 1796. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4682159: Tubipore or sea organ. Copper engraving by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), signed illustration SN, by Frederick Noder and George Shaw for the naturalist collection, published in 1790 by George Shaw. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4682163: Mant leaf. Copper engraving by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), signed illustration SN, by Frederick Noder and George Shaw for the naturalist collection, published in 1790 by George Shaw. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4682183: Portrait of Nicolas Culpeper (1616-1654), botanist, herbalist doctor and English astrologer. It is described wearing a cape with a large lace collar, inscribed in an oval frame with the signs of the zodiac, topped by a ribbon. Engraving in “” Culpeper's Complete Herbal and English Physician”” Burslem, Tregortha, 1814. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4682275: Portrait of the reverend Doctor John Walker (1730-1803), Scottish naturalist, professor of natural history at the University of Edinburgh from 1779 to 1803. Engraving by W.H. Lizars, in “The Naturalist Library” by Sir William Jardine, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1833. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4682299: Portrait of John Evelyn (1620-1706), English writer, gardener and horticulturist. Engraving by W.H. Lizars, in “” The Naturalist Library”” by Sir William Jardine, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1833. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4682419: Purple and orange lilies - Lithography attributed to Paul Theodor van Brussel (1754-1795), author of the cover bouquet, or A.Bres., influenced by Nicolas Robert (1614-1685), published in “Nederlandsch Bloemwerk” (Dutch Floral Compositions), Amsterdam, J.B. Elwe, 1794 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4682855: Red Partridge, Alectoris rufa - Lithography by Richard Polydore Nodder (1774-1823) published in The Naturalist Miscellany, 1812 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4677632: Street entertainer using a baton to remove a coin from a woman's nose without touching her nose. Audience of fashionable women in bonnets, shawls and dresses with frills. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesanger's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4677718: Breakfast. Gentlemen in coat tails and breeches and ladies in veils and dresses share a breakfast of coffee and bread. Great familiarity reigns in the morning, one has no time to become ceremonial, breakfast is the honest meal.” Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesanger's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4677735: A woman is pampered by her seamstress, her clothes seller, her hairdresser and two chambermaids. As Montesquieu said, “” For one man to live deliciously, one hundred others must work tirelessly.”” Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesanger's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4677764: Woman in a shop trying to decide which dress matches her new hat. A shopgirl holds a dress trimmed with flowers, and another with gauze frill. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesanger's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4676769: Military suit: Victor (Vettore) Pisani (1324-1380), venitian admiral (Italy) - Vettore Pisani, Venetian admiral, 14th century - He wears a red toque, ted tunic buckled up the front, suit of steel plate armour, thighs, greaves, gauntlets, and shoes, edged with gold - His arms include two-handed sword and dagger - From the statue in Venice arsenal - Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from “” Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries,”” Levy Fils, Paris, 1860, Mercuri, Paolo (1804-84) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4676799: Alberto I Canfrancesco della Scala (1291-1329), war name Cangrande della Scala, lord of Verona and mecene of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) - Cangrande della Scala, lord of Verona, 14th center- He wears a blue cap, pink cape with hanging sleeves lined with fur, belted scarlet robe, gauntlets and holds a blue two-handed sword in scabbard - From his sarcophagus in the church of Santa Maria Antica, Verona - Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from “” Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries,”” Levy Fils, Paris, 1860, Mercuri, Paolo (1804-84) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4676803: Cimabue (Cenni di Pepo) (1272-1302), Italian painter, headdress of a liripion - Cimabue, Florentine artist, 14th century - He wears a short white cape embroidered in gold, a hood with a long tail, tunic, stockings and garters in white and gold - From a painting by Simone Martini in the church of Santa Maria Novella, Florence - (Massard, this is Jean by Joinville, French chronicler, 1224-1317) - Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from “” Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries,”” Levy Fils, Paris, 1860, Mercuri, Paolo (1804-84) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4676850: Suit d'un homme jeif, 14eme century - Jewish man, 14th century - He wears a white hood, yellow cape with gold embroidery, green robe, red belt and shoes - From a painting by Sano di Pietro in the Academy of Fine Arts, Siena - Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from “” Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries,”” Levy Fils, Paris, 1860, Mercuri, Paolo (1804-84) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4676887: Costume d'une jeune femme de Florence (Italy), 14th century - Noble woman of Florence, 14th century - She wears her hair tied with black laces, blue simar embroidered in gold, yellow lining, scarlet robe, leather belt - From a painting to illustrate Boccaccio's Decameron by an artist of the Florentine school - Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from “” Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries,”” Levy Fils, Paris, 1860, Mercuri, Paolo (1804-84) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4672013: Hairstyles of Josephine de Beauharnais, 1788, later wife to Napoleon, from murals in the bathrooms at Malmaison in the Roman style. Handcoloured lithograph from Fashions and Customs of Marie Antoinette and her Times, by Le Comte de Reiset, Paris, 1885. The journal of Madame Eloffe, dressmaker and linen-merchant to the Queen and ladies of the court. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4672143: Blanche de la Tour (1342-1342), daughter of Edward III (1312-1377). Dead child represented by a young woman after her monument in St Edward's Chapel in Westminster (England). Lithograph by Charles Martin, engraving by Leopold Martin, published in “” Costumes civils d'Angleterre depuis la conquete à nos jours”, 1842, London. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4672172: Men's costume at the time of Henri VII (1457-1509), wearing a short coat with long sleeves on a purdot and high shoes. According to the Harleian manuscript. Lithograph by Charles Martin, engraving by Leopold Martin, published in “” Costumes civils d'Angleterre depuis la conquete au nos jours”, 1842, London. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4678795: Variety of mimule (monkey or musk flower) Engraved board by S.Watts, from an illustration by Sarah Anne Drake (1803-1857), from the Botanical Register of Sydenham Edwards (1768-1819), England, 1833 - Rose monkey-flower, Mimulus roseus - Engraving by S. Watts after an illustration by Miss Drake from Sydenham Edwards' “The Botanical Register,” London, Ridgway, 1833, Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4680449: Red Siberian throat (Luscinia calliope). Signed illustration RN (Richard Nodder (1774-1823)). Lithography in The Naturalist's Miscellany, 1793, by George Shaw and Frederick Polydore Noder (1751-1801). / Bridgeman Images

FLO4680476: Variete of guitar ray, endemic to western Australia (Aptychotrema rostrata). Signed illustration RN (Richard Nodder). Copper engraving for the naturalist collection, published in 1794 by George Shaw and Frederick Nodder. Eastern shovelnose ray, Aptychotrema rostrata. Illustration signed RN (Richard Nodder). Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's “” The Naturalist's Miscellany””” 1794. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4684194: Sea anemone, branch of the cnidaires. Copper engraving by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), George Shaw's illustration for the naturalist collection, published in 1790 by George Shaw. Sea anemone or anemone actinia. Actinia anemone. Scarlet sea anemone shown in contracted (1) and expanded state (3), “” displaying a triple row of circular tentacula of an oblong form, with obtuse points, of a yellow color and varied with red.” Handcolored copperplate engraving, illustration signed S (George Shaw) from George Shaw's “” Naturalist's Miscellany”” (1790). / Bridgeman Images

FLO4684202: Giant kangaroo. Copper engraving by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), for the naturalist collection, published in 1790 by George Shaw. Great kanguroo or eastern grey kangaroo. Macropus giganteus. Handcolored copperplate engraving, illustration signed N (Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), artist and engraver) from George Shaw's “” Naturalist's Miscellany”” (1790). / Bridgeman Images

FLO4684208: Sea anemone, branch of the cnidaires. Description of the animal's inner tentacles. Copper engraving by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), George Shaw's illustration for the naturalist collection, published in 1790 by George Shaw. Sea anemone or anemone actinia. Actinia anemone. Sea anemone open slightly to reveal “” a few of the interior branchy tentacula or central parts”” (2), and protruding “” almost the whole of its interior parts or viscera in the form of an inflated membrane of a pale yellow colour, and striped very elegantly with rays of red and pale green.” Handcolored copperplate engraving, illustration signed S (George Shaw) from George Shaw's “” Naturalist's Miscellany”” (1790). / Bridgeman Images

FLO4684239: Fulgore carries lantern, lantern fly or peanut bug. Copper engraving by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), George Shaw's illustration for the naturalist collection, published in 1790 by George Shaw. Lantern fly, peanut bug, peanut-headed lanternfly, alligator bug, machaca, great lanthorn-fly or firefly. Fulgora laternaria (Fulgora lanternaria). Madam Merian says, “” the light of one of these insects is so vivid that a person may see to read a newspaper by it... However, she seems to have introduced an imaginary figure, representing the Cicada tibican with the head of a Fulgora. The light emitted by the firefly proceeds entirely from the hollow part, or lantern of the head.” Handcolored copperplate engraving, illustration signed S (George Shaw) from George Shaw's “” Naturalist's Miscellany”” (1790). / Bridgeman Images

FLO4684305: Boa constrictor, formerly known as boa devin or aviosa. Copper engraving by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), George Shaw's illustration for the naturalist collection, published in 1790 by George Shaw. Great boa. Boa constrictor. Handcolored copperplate engraving, illustration signed S (George Shaw) from George Shaw's “” Naturalist's Miscellany”” (1790). / Bridgeman Images

FLO4684308: Blue morpho butterfly. Copper engraving by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), George Shaw's illustration for the naturalist collection, published in 1790 by George Shaw. Menelaus Blue Morpho butterfly. Morpho menelaus (Papilio menelaus). Iridescent blue tropical butterfly native to Central and South America. Handcolored copperplate engraving, illustration signed S (George Shaw) from George Shaw's “” Naturalist's Miscellany”” (1790). / Bridgeman Images

FLO4684313: Banks or banksian. Copper engraving by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), George Shaw's illustration for the naturalist collection, published in 1790 by George Shaw. Red tailed Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii, Calyptorhynchus magnificus), Banksian or Bank's Black Cockatoo. Handcolored copperplate engraving, illustration signed SN (George Shaw and Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), artist and engraver) from George Shaw's “” Naturalist's Miscellany”” (1790). / Bridgeman Images

FLO4684329: The hairy stapele. Copper engraving by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), George Shaw's illustration for the naturalist collection, published in 1790 by George Shaw. Fetid stapelia or carrion flower. Stapelia hirsuta. Handcolored copperplate engraving, illustration signed S (George Shaw) from George Shaw's “” Naturalist's Miscellany”” (1790). / Bridgeman Images

FLO4684353: Lippu bear or lazy bear or long-lipped bear. Copper engraving by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), drawing by M. Catton, for the naturalist collection, published in 1790 by George Shaw. Ursiform sloth, ursine bradypus or sloth bear. Melursus ursinus (Bradypus ursinus). An arboreal, nocturnal and insectivorous species of bear restricted to the Indian subcontinent. Drawing by Mr. Catton. Handcolored copperplate engraving, by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), artist and engraver, from George Shaw's “” Naturalist's Miscellany”” (1790). / Bridgeman Images

FLO4684355: Lazy has three fingers. Copper engraving by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801) for the naturalist collection, published in 1790 by George Shaw. Three-toed sloth or pale-throated sloth. Bradypus tridactylus. Handcolored copperplate engraving, illustration signed N (Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), artist and engraver) from George Shaw's “” Naturalist's Miscellany”” (1790). / Bridgeman Images

FLO4684452: Woman in wireless telephone (the TSF) costume, with speaker hat, receiver and gold dress. Lithograph by unknown artist with stencil handcolouring from “” Nos Travestis”” (Our Fancy Dress Costumes), Paris, 1928. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4684485: Woman in fancy dress costume as a cricket, le crillon, with grey mini dress and seethrough cape, long antennae and insect legs. Lithograph by unknown artist with stencil handcolouring from “” Nos Travestis”” (Our Fancy Dress Costumes), Paris, 1928. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4684509: Woman in powder box fancy dress costume, le boite a poudre, with decorated hoop skirt, powder puff, tassles and puff hat. Lithograph by unknown artist with stencil handcolouring from “” Nos Travestis”” (Our Fancy Dress Costumes), Paris, 1928. / Bridgeman Images