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FLO4659760: Cresson Alenois (Lepidium sativum) Coloured copper prints from a drawing by B. Thanner by Johannes Zorn “Afbeeldingen der Artseny-Gewassen”” (Icons de plantes medicinales) published by Jan Christiaan Sepp in 1796. Zorn (1739-1799) was a German pharmacist and botanist who travelled all over Europe looking for medicinal plants. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4636260: French explorers visiting a house on chamarro stilts, on the island of Guam (Mariana Islands, USA), women cook. Illustration from Voyage Around the World (1824) by Louis de Freycinet (1779-1842). Lithography for the book: “” Galerie complete en tableaux fideles des peuples d'Amérique et d'Australie”” by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche (1785-1863), Meissen edition (Germany), 1835-1840. English explorers visiting a typical Chamorro stilt house on the island of Guam, women cooking and smoking tobacco. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's “” Vollstaendige Voelkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen”” (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4636815: Cornelius van Dun, soldier with King Henry at Turney, Yeoman of the Guard, died 1577. Copperplate engraving by T. Trotter from William Richard's Portraits Illustrating Granger's Biographical History of England, London, 1792-1812. James Granger (1723-1776) was an English clergy, biographer, and print collector. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4637143: Heron ash or great heron. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811.Common heron, Ardea major, Grey heron, Ardea cinerea. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4637334: Grey hello. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Cuckoo, Cuculus canorus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4637340: Tree pinson. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Chaffinch, Fringilla coelebs. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4636948: The variable nozzle. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Common buzzard, Falco buteo, Buteo buteo. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4637024: The hoopoe fasciee. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Hoopoe, Upupa epops. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4637126: Rustic swallow. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Chimney swallow, Barn swallow, Hirundo rustica. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4637134: Colchid pheasant. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Ring or common pheasant, Phasianus colchicus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. This plate was drawn by William Samuel Howitt, a sporting and natural history artist. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4637173: Small murre or Greenland pigeon. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Little grebe, Colymbus minor, Podiceps minor, Tachybaptus ruficollis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4637302: The hulotte owl or the hut cat. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Tawny owl, Strix stridula, Brown owl, Strix aluco. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4637322: Sonnet starch. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Common starling, Sturnus vulgaris. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4636937: Emerald falcon. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Merlin, Falco aesalon, Falco columbarius. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4637102: The sizerin or small linotte. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Lesser redpole, Fringilla linaria, Lesser redpoll, Carduelis cabaret. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4637277: Pie grieche ecorcheur. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Red-backed shrike, Lanius collurio. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4637528: The fee sunflower, with its face framed with petals and a cape of leaves, stands kneeling in prayer towards the Sun - Eau forte by Charles Geoffroy (1819-1882), after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard dit J.J.Granville (1803-1847), for Les fleurs animees, 1847 - Sunflower flower flower fairy, Helianthus annuus - Handcoloured steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from “” Les Fleurs Animees,”” 1847 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4637709: La fee scabieuse et la fee souci - Eau forte by Charles Geoffroy (1819-1882), from an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard dit J.J.J.Granville (1803-1847), for Les fleurs animees, 1847 - Sweet scabious and marigold flower fairies - Handcoloured steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from “” Les Fleurs Animates””, 1847 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4637775: La fee tulip, en robe de petals et turban - Eau forte by Charles Geoffroy (1819-1882), from an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard dit J.J.J.Granville (1803-1847), for Les fleurs animees, 1847 - Tulip flower fairy in turban and dress of leaves and petals, Tulipa gesnera - Handcoloured steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from “” Les Fleurs Animees”””, 1847 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4637811: La fee violet kneels under the leaves squeezing gold dishes - Eau forte by Charles Geoffroy (1819-1882), based on an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard dit J.J.J.Granville (1803-1847), for Les fleurs animees, 1847 - Violet, Viola odorata, flower fairies kneeling under leaves clutching gold vessels - Handcoloured steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from “” Les Fleurs Animees”””, 1847 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4635350: Faces of san men (formerly bochimans or bushmen) (South Africa), face and profile. Lithography for the book: “” Galerie complete en tableaux fideles des peuples d'Afrique” by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche (1785-1863), edition Meissen (Germany), 1835-1840. Heads of San men, South Africa, from the front and in profile. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's “” Vollstaendige Voelkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen”” (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4635479: A Canadian coupling with passengers and a pipe-smoking driver on a drill road. Lithography for the book: “” Galerie complete en tableaux fideles des peuples d'Amérique et d'Australie”” by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche (1785-1863), Meissen edition (Germany), 1835-1840. A Canadian one-horse wagon with two male passengers and a pipe-smoking driver on a forest road. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's “” Vollstaendige Voelkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen”” (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4635042: The top of the great pyramid of Giza (Egypt), with men in tunic and turban climbing the stones of the building. Lithography for the book: “” Galerie complete en tableaux fideles des peuples d'Afrique”” by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche (1785-1863), edition Meissen (Germany), 1835-1840.Summit of the great pyramid of Giza, Egypt, with men in turbans and robes carrying sticks climbing over the stones. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's “” Vollstaendige Voelkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen”” (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. / Bridgeman Images