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FLO4724184: Noble arabe - Arabian nobleman in large hat, cloak, embroidered robes, red stockings and slippers - Handcoloured woodcut by Pannemaker after an illustration by H. Hendrickx from “” Mores, Uses et Costumes de tous les Peuples du Monde, Asie,”” by Auguste Wahlen, pseudonym of Jean Francois Nicolas Loumyer (1801-1875), Librairie Historique Artistic, Brussels, 1845 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4707409: Men's clothing anglo saxon: the shirt (50), worn directly on the skin, it also served as a nightgown. The Shroud (51), after being washed, the dead man is once again clothed in a shirt similar to his rank, then wrapped in a shroud until the ground, at that time the face is covered with a handkerchief or sudarium, usually white, but sometimes blue, red or pink. Hand-coloured copper engraving, in “Images historiques des costumes des principaux peuples de l'Antiquite et du Middle Ages” by Robert Von Spalart, published in 1796. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4707448: A noble woman or a Saxon Anglo queen, wearing a lilac dress with wide sleeves, and a blue scarf covering her head and neck, a red coat and a tunic colored gold decoree wine. From the 9th to the 10th century, women's sleeves evolve from the widest to flared shapes. Hand-coloured copper engraving, in “Images historiques des costumes des principaux peuples de l'Antiquite et du Middle Ages” by Robert Von Spalart, published in 1796. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4708496: Knight of the Order of Aviz. A Portuguese military religious order, after the conquest of Aviz (Portugal), a military fortress was built and became the mother house of the order, who first called themselves the Knights of St. Benedict d'Aviz until they adopted the Benedictine rule in 1162. They were subject to the rules and the Cistercian costume, wearing a white coat and a green lysee flower cross. Hand-coloured copper engraving, in “Images historiques des costumes des principaux peuples de l'Antiquite et du Middle Ages” by Robert Von Spalart, published in 1796. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4708548: Effigy of ladies in a grave, kneeling in prayer. A German version identifies this illustration as a lady and her daughter, but in a French edition it is called to place the knights in the tomb. In ancient monuments, knights and their wife were often places in this attitude. Hand-coloured copper engraving, in “Images historiques des costumes des principaux peuples de l'Antiquite et du Middle Ages” by Robert Von Spalart, published in 1800. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4719678: Female red bird-of-paradise, Paradisaea rubra (Paradisea rubra). After an illustration by Rene-Primevere Lesson (mislabeled juvenile male lesser bird-of-paradise, Paradisaea minor). Handcoloured lithograph from Georg Friedrich Treitschke's Gallery of Natural History, Naturhistorischer Bildersaal des Thierreiches, Liepzig, 1842. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4719874: Loggerhead sea turtle, Caretta caretta (Thalassochelys caouana) Endangered. (Mislabeled Dermatochelys caouana.) Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Sandler from Georg Friedrich Treitschke's Gallery of Natural History, Naturhistorischer Bildersaal des Thierreiches, Liepzig-1842. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4718344: Dentist laughing as he uses tongs to hold a hot coal to a man's face to make him jerk back and extract a tooth with string. Copperplate engraving after a satirical illustration by Timothy Bobbin (John Collier) (1708-1786) from Human Passions Delineated, John Haywood, Manchester, 1773. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4718473: The chamber of deputes in the faubourg Saint Germain, an orator is in the gallery before the president and the secretaries and above, the bailiffs seated - Eau forte after an illustration by Victor Auver, extracted from Un tour a travers Paris, published by William Sams, 1925 - / Bridgeman Images
FLO4720769: Richardson's ground squirrel, Urocitellus richardsonii (Richardson's ground squirrel, Spermophilus richardsonii). Chromolithograph by Trautmann, Bailey and Blampey after an illustration by Ernest E. Thompson from the Report of the Ornithologist, US Department of Agriculture, 1892. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4720271: Scimitar oryx or scimitar-horned oryx. Extinct in the wild. (As Antelope bezoartica). After an illustration by James Stewart. Handcoloured lithograph from Georg Friedrich Treitschke's Gallery of Natural History, Naturhistorischer Bildersaal des Thierreiches, Liepzig-1842. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4718890: African buffalo or Cape buffalo, Syncerus caffer (Bos cafer). Naked South African men with spears, shields, blankets and buffalo on a trek. Handcoloured steel engraving from Georg Friedrich Treitschke's Gallery of Natural History, Naturhistorischer Bildersaal des Thierreiches, Liepzig-1842. / Bridgeman Images