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FLO4563076: Pink swamp rose, Rosa pensylvanica (Rosa palustris). Handcoloured copperplate botanical drawn, engraved and coloured by Henry Charles Andrews for his own “Roses, a monograph of the genus Rosa,” London, 1806. Andrews was an English botanist, artist and engraver who published the “” Botanist's Repository”” from 1797 to 1812 and separate volumes on roses, geraniums and heaths. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4563141: Botanical board: Scent dill (Anethum graveolens). 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
FLO4563185: Flora, crowned with a garden of flowers, offering floral tributes to three figures - Botany (shown holding an alembic), Physics (who is looking through a magnifying glass) and Pomona (who holds a spade and basket of fruit). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Mario Cammerari from Professor Filippo Arena's La natura e cultura dei fiori fisicamente esposta (The nature and culture of flowers physically displayed), Palermo, Italy, 1771. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4563277: Cowslip varieties, Primula veris 1-6, and pellitory, Achillea ptarmica 7-8. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Mario Cammerari from Professor Filippo Arena's La natura e cultura dei fiori fisicamente esposta (The nature and culture of flowers physically displayed), Palermo, Italy, 1771. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4574857: American alligator (American alligator), Alligator mississippiensis 1, and gavial or gharial (Ganges gavial), Gavialis gangeticus 2, critically endangered. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1798. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4575110: Fumarole or sulphuric gases escaping from Solfatare volcano near Naples, Italy - Fumarole or sulphuric gases escaping from Solfatara volcano near Naples. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J.B. Hoessel from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1802. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4575002: Mourning cloak (Morio), Nymphalis antiopa 1, European peacock (peacock of the day), Inachis io 2, and red admiral (Vulcain), Vanessa atalanta 3, butterfly, caterpillar and pupa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1802. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4575090: English horse-racing scene, 18th century. Jockeys with whips on thoroughbred horses races before a crowd of spectators and carriages. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Friedrich Kaiser from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1802. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4575190: Telegraph machines: the telegraph on the Louvre in Paris 1, and the telegraph at Lille showing the mechanism for moving the arms and an observer with telescope dictating to a secretary 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Goetz from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1802. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4575003: Death's head hawk-moth (sphinx head of death), Acherontia atropos 1, and eyed hawk-moth (sphinx demi peacock), Smerinthus ocellatus 2, moth, caterpillar and pupa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1802. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4575150: Ancient Roman Circus or games arena 1, four-horse chariot or quadriga 2, chariot yoke with ram's head 3, and bronze medal to honour the victor 4. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1802. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4575609: Tokay gecko, Gekko gecko 1, broad-tailed gecko (gecko a tail large), Phyllurus platurus 2, five-toed whip lizard (tetradifon), Tetradactylus seps 3, cylindrical skink, Chalcides chalcides 4, and fire salamander, Salamandra salamandra, male 5,6 and female 7,8. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1805. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4575283: Damask rose (Damascus rose), Rosa damascena basilica, and single yellow rose, Rosa lutea simplex. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from an illustration drawn from nature by Stark from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1802. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4575634: Tench (Tench), Tinca tinca 1, ide (Melanote Ide), Leuciscus idus 2, gibel carp (goldfish or golden cyprin), Carassius auratus auratus 3, and Indian humphead (Indian Napoleon), Kurtus indicus 4. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1792. / Bridgeman Images