FLO4650855: Robin flycatcher, Muscicapa rubecola. Known only from a specimen in the Paris Museum. Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by William Swainson from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Flycatchers, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, 1836. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4650880: Lowland peltops, Peltops blainvillii (Fork-tailed gaper, Eurylaimus blainvilli). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by William Swainson from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Flycatchers, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, 1836. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4650901: Woodland kingfisher, Halcyon senegalensis (Rufous-vented kingfisher, Halcyon rufiventer). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Birds of Western Africa, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, 1837. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4651011: Temminck's courser, Cursorius temminckii (Senegal courier, Tachydromus senegalensis). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Birds of Western Africa, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, 1837. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4651116: Portrait of Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), collector of curiosite firms. Copper engraving by William Lizars, published in the Naturalist Bibliotheque: mammals, pachyderms and quadrupedes with fine skin, edited by W. H. Lizars, Edinburgh (Scotland), 1836. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4645151: Tench, the ordinary tench, Tinca tinca, and carp, the queen of carps, Cyprinus carpio. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's “” Dictionary of Natural Sciences”” 1816-1830. The volumes on fish and reptiles were edited by Hippolyte Cloquet, natural historian and doctor of medicine. Illustration by J.G. Pretre, engraved by Miss Six-deniers, directed by Turpin, and published by F. G. Levrault. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4645225: European barracuda, Spit fish, sphyrene spet, Sphyraena sphyraena, and perch, perseque or parsegue, Perca. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's “” Dictionary of Natural Sciences”” 1816-1830. The volumes on fish and reptiles were edited by Hippolyte Cloquet, natural historian and doctor of medicine. Illustration by J.G. Pretre, engraved by Victor, directed by Turpin, and published by F. G. Levrault. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4645243: Atlantic saury, scombresoce camperien, Scomberesox saurus, and Nile bichir, polyptere bichir, Polypterus bichir. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's “” Dictionary of Natural Sciences”” 1816-1830. The volumes on fish and reptiles were edited by Hippolyte Cloquet, natural historian and doctor of medicine. Illustration by J.G. Pretre, engraved by Nargeot, directed by Turpin, and published by F. G. Levrault. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4645446: Le cabaret du Moulin Rouge, 82 boulevard de Clichy Paris 75018. This cabaret founded by Charles Zidler and Joseph Oller opened its doors on the occasion of the World Exposition in 1889. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4645450: Le cabaret du Moulin Rouge, 82 boulevard de Clichy Paris 75018. This cabaret founded by Charles Zidler and Joseph Oller opened its doors on the occasion of the World Exposition in 1889. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4645458: Le cabaret du Moulin Rouge, 82 boulevard de Clichy Paris 75018. This cabaret founded by Charles Zidler and Joseph Oller opened its doors on the occasion of the World Exposition in 1889. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4645519: Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston (1720 - 1788), was a notorious and devious English aristocrat. In 1744, she married poor naval officer Augustus Hervey but kept her marriage secret to keep her position at court. When Hervey became Earl of Bristol, however, she suddenly started boasting of her marriage to him. At the same time, Elizabeth became mistress to the Duke of Kingston and married him in 1769. When the Duke died in 1773, Elizabeth inherited all his property - until the Duke's nephew charged her with bigamy. Although found guilty, this “” coarse and licentious””” woman managed to flee to Europe with his fortune, and lived a life of luxury in Paris and Rome. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4645571: Miss Lambert, 18th century celebrity. Portrait No. 28 XXVIII. Copperplate engraving from a periodical. Beauty with her hair up and a low decollete dress. Perhaps the amateur actress from a group of strolling players pictured in “The Hibernian”” of 1781. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4646011: William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton, 1st Earl of Essex and 1st Baron Parr (1513-1571), English broker. Brother of Catherine Parr, 6th wife of Henry VIII. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Francis Bartolozzi after Hans Holbein from Facsimiles of Original Drawings by Hans Holbein, Hamilton, Adams, London, 1884. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4646146: Satellite WMAP - Illustration - Satellite WMAP - Illustration - View of satellite WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe), launched on 30 June 2001 and placed in an orbit located at the second point of Lagrange (L2) about 1.6 million km from Earth. This satellite measured temperature fluctuations in the fossil radiation of the primordial universe, Dixon, Don (b.1951) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4645848: Guy XVII de Laval or Claude XVII, Count de Laval, French nobleman, 1522-1547. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Francis Bartolozzi after Hans Holbein from Facsimiles of Original Drawings by Hans Holbein, Hamilton, Adams, London, 1884. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4646263: Narrow-striped mongoose, Mungotictis decemlineata (vulnerable) 2, and pen-tailed treeshrew, Ptilocercus lowii 1. Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmann's Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1849. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4645910: Monsieur la Faille, French gentleman at the court of King Henry VIII. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Francis Bartolozzi after Hans Holbein from Facsimiles of Original Drawings by Hans Holbein, Hamilton, Adams, London, 1884. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4646123: Red legged falcon, Erythropus vespertinus (orange legged hobby, Falco rufipes). Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmann's Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1849. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4646144: Sea cucumbers: Trochodota purpurea 1,2, Cladodactyla crocea 3, Stichopus chloronotus 4, Anaperus peruvianus 5, and Holothuria (Metriatyla) lessoni 6. Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmann's Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1849. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4646266: Garden spider, Araneus diadematus male 1, female 2, Spanish fly, Lytta vesicatoria 3,4,5 Cantharis livida 6, giant blister beetle, Lytta gigas 7, blister beetles, Lydus trimaculatus 8, Mylabris cichorii 9, Mylabris sidae 10, sevenspot ladybird, Coccinella septempunctata 11, and other ladybird varieties C. ocellata 13 and C. dispar 14. Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmann's Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1849. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4646292: Skipjack tuna or bonito, Katsuwonus pelamis 1, tuna, Thunnus thynnus 2, and long-fin tunny, Thunnus alalalunga 3. Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmann's Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1849. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4646402: View of the city of Budapest on the Danube, mid-19th century. Lithograph from Carl Hoffmann's Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1857. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4646496: Dorcas gazelle - gazelle dorcas ou dorcade - Gazella dorcas (vulnerable), running from a cheetah - guepard - Acinonyx jubatus (vulnerable). Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmann's Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1857. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4646637: Handcoloured copperplate engraving of an illustration by Miss Prudhomme from “” Hommage rendu a la Rose,”” Paris, circa 1815. A gift book with the history of the rose and a dozen botanical miniatures. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4646609: Simple pink, pink dog rose, Rosa canina. Handcoloured copperplate engraving of an illustration by Miss Prudhomme from “” Hommage rendu a la Rose,”” Paris, circa 1815. A gift book with the history of the rose and a dozen botanical miniatures. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4646436: Thornback ray - Raja clavata (near threatened). Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmann's Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1857. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4646807: Mushrooms: green russule (or palomet) - Japanese print by Kanen Iwasaki (1786-1842), from Honzo Zufu, illustrative guide to medicinal plants, 1916 - Anutake mushrooms, Russula virescens - Colour printed woodblock engraving by Kan'en Iwasaki, from “” Honzo Zufu””, 1916 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4646444: Kangaroo - giant kangaroo - Macropus giganteus. Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmann's Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1857. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4646820: Mushrooms: Kuritake and yellow bolet (or butter) - Japanese print by Kanen Iwasaki (1786-1842), from Honzo Zufu, illustrative guide to medicinal plants, 1916 - Kuritake and anutake mushroom, Boletus luteus - Colour printed woodblock engraving by Kan'en Iwasaki, from “” Honzo Zufu””, 1916 / Bridgeman Images

LRI4645166: View of the bridge and the Castel (photography), Roman, (2nd century) / Bridgeman Images

TEC4645230: Le cabaret du Moulin Rouge, 82 boulevard de Clichy, Paris 75018. This cabaret founded by Charles Zidler and Joseph Oller opened its doors on the occasion of the 1889 World Exhibition. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4645368: Common green iguana, ordinary iguana, iguana iguana. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's “” Dictionary of Natural Sciences”” 1816-1830. The volumes on fish and reptiles were edited by Hippolyte Cloquet, natural historian and doctor of medicine. Illustration by J.G. Pretre, engraved by Madame Joyeau, directed by Turpin, and published by F. G. Levrault. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4645528: Catherine or Katherine Fitzgerald, Countess of Desmond (d. 1604), Irish noblewoman nicknamed the “” old countess”” and famous for living to 120 years of age. Copperplate engraving by J. Lodge from an unknown artist's portrait. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4645612: Princess Augusta of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg (1719-1772), Princess of Wales and later Dowager Princess of Wales. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4645269: King of herrings, regalec glesne, Regalecus glesne, and deal fish, Iceland bogmare, Trachipterus arcticus. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's “” Dictionary of Natural Sciences”” 1816-1830. The volumes on fish and reptiles were edited by Hippolyte Cloquet, natural historian and doctor of medicine. Illustration by J.G. Pretre, engraved by Louvier, directed by Turpin, and published by F. G. Levrault. / Bridgeman Images