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FLO4591848: Canal swing bridge and canal navigator's tools including barow, grafting tool, shovel, scoop and horsing-block. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by John Farey Jr. from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1806. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4598215: The baccifere yew (Taxus Baccifera). Venenous plant, description of a branch from the top and from the bottom, as well as details of the fruits (red berries), has different stages of ripening. Eau forte en couleurs 18th century, in Herbier de la France (1780-1793), drawing, engraving and printing by Jean Baptiste Francois Pierre Bulliard (1742-1793), French botanist. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4598239: The male mandrake (Mandragora officinarum). Venenous plant, plant description, flower, foliage and root. Details of the flower, chalice, corolla and etamines, pistil, seeds and fruit. Eau forte en couleurs 18th century, in Herbier de la France (1780-1793), drawing, engraving and printing by Jean Baptiste Francois Pierre Bulliard (1742-1793), French botanist. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4595027: Plum varieties, Prunus domestica: Wine Sour Plum, Plum Plum, and Myrabolan or Queen Mother Plum. Handcoloured stipple engraving of an illustration by George Brookshaw from his own “” Pomona Britannica,”” London, Longman, Hurst, etc., 1817. The quarto edition of the original folio edition published from 1804-1812. Brookshaw (1751-1823) was a successful cabinet maker who disappeared in the 1790s before returning as a flower painter with the anonymous “” New Treatise on Flower Painting,””” 1797. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4602948: Chevalier John Taylor, notorious apothecary, mountebank and quack doctor, who trained a man to act as a blind man so that he could restore his sight. Died 1776. Copperplate engraving from John Caulfield's Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons, Young, London, 1819. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4595311: Pear varieties, Pyrus communis: Onion or La Grosse Oignonette and Pear d'Auch. Handcoloured stipple engraving of an illustration by George Brookshaw from his own “” Pomona Britannica,”” London, Longman, Hurst, etc., 1817. The quarto edition of the original folio edition published from 1804-1812. Brookshaw (1751-1823) was a successful cabinet maker who disappeared in the 1790s before returning as a flower painter with the anonymous “” New Treatise on Flower Painting,””” 1797. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4599906: Scammonee - Syrian bindweed or scammony, Convolvulus scammonia. Taken from an illustration by William Clark in Churchill and Stephenson's “Medical Botany.”” Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her “” Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants,”” Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanical illustrations, but the text was chiefly by her late brother, British botanist Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800-1835). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4600019: Black Murier - Common mulberry tree, Morus nigra, with flower, leaf, and ripe fruit. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her “” Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants,”” Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanical illustrations, but the text was chiefly by her late brother, British botanist Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800-1835). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4600084: Flaxseed - Common flax or linseed, Linum usitatissimum. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her “” Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants,”” Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanical illustrations, but the text was chiefly by her late brother, British botanist Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800-1835). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4600108: Climbing hops - Hops, Humulus lupulus. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her “” Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants,”” Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanical illustrations, but the text was chiefly by her late brother, British botanist Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800-1835). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4600121: Coloquinte officinal or true coloquinte - Bitter apple, bitter cucumber or colocynth, Citrullus colocynthis (Cucumis colocynthis). Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her “” Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants,”” Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanical illustrations, but the text was chiefly by her late brother, British botanist Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800-1835). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4600130: Commiphore Mecca Balm or Galaad Balsam - Balsam of Gilead tree, Commiphora gileadensis. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her “” Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants,”” Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanical illustrations, but the text was chiefly by her late brother, British botanist Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800-1835). / Bridgeman Images
LRI4603067: Portrait of Mary of Medici (1540-1557) daughter of Cosimo I of Tuscany (Cosimo I de Medici) (1519-1574) (Portrait of Maria de Medici daughter of Cosimo I de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany) Painting by Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo) (1503-1572) 1551 Dim 15x12 cm Florence Palazzo Medici Ricciarini/Leemage, Bronzino, Agnolo di Cosimo (1503-72) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4603126: Shoes, boots and sandals of ancient Rome. Cothurnus boot 1, rustic sandal 2, open-toe shoe 3, centurion's sandal 4, spiked sandal for marching 5, nailed sandal sole 6, shoe sandal 7, emperor's boot 8, ornamented open-toe boot 9, and Dacian boot 10. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from J. Sparkes Hall's Book of the Feet, Histoire of Boots and Shoes, New York, 1847. / Bridgeman Images