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LRI4625397: Roman art: mosaic representing the head of a marine deity. 3rd century AD. Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano - Roman Art. Sea Divinity. Mosaic, 3rd cent AD. Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy - Roman Art. Sea Divinity. Mosaic, 3rd cent AD. Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy, Roman, (3rd century AD) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4625467: Rose - young woman dressed in a dress of rose petals - Lithography by Louis Lassalle, extracted from Les fleurs parlantes by Louise Leneveux (1800-18?) , Paris, 1848 - (Rose flower fairy - Handcoloured frontispiece lithograph by Lassalle from L. Leneveux, The Talking Flowers, Paris, 1848) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4632829: English actor Eugene Grailly as Charles II in Don Cesar de Bazan by Dumanoir and Adolphe d'Ennery, Theatre de la Porte St. Martin, 1844. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Alexandre Lacauchie from Victor Dollet's Galerie Dramatique: Costumes des Theatres de Paris, Paris, 1845. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4632845: Miss Clarisse Midroy as Maritana in Don Cesar de Bazan by Dumanoir and Adolphe d'Ennery, Theatre de la Porte St. Martin, 1844. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Alexandre Lacauchie from Victor Dollet's Galerie Dramatique: Costumes des Theatres de Paris, Paris, 1845. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4632887: Etienne Melingue and Louis de Thuringe in Le Miracle des Roses by Antony Beraud and Hippolyte Hostein, Amigue-Comique, 1844. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Alexandre Lacauchie from Victor Dollet's Galerie Dramatique: Costumes des Theatres de Paris, Paris, 1845. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4633956: The mausolee of Tipu Sahib (1749-1799), sultan of Mysore (or Maissour, present-day Karnataka state), is known as the “Mysore Tiger”, because of its position to the British settlement in India. Lithography for the book: “” Galerie complete en tableaux fideles des peuples d'Asie”” by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche (1785-1863), edition Meissen (Germany), 1835-1840. Tomb of Tipu Sultan of Mysore, or the Tiger of Mysore. 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
FLO4633999: Persian artillery costumes, the guns mounted on the saddle of the camels. With the flag and Persian gold coins. Lithography for the book: “” Galerie complete en tableaux fideles des peuples d'Asie”” by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche (1785-1863), edition Meissen (Germany), 1835-1840. Persian camel artillery showing bomdiers firing cannons mounted on saddles. Persian flag and gold coins. 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
FLO4633973: Persian costumes: a couple of courtiers and ordinary traditional costumes. Lithography for the book: “” Galerie complete en tableaux fideles des peuples d'Asie”” by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche (1785-1863), edition Meissen (Germany), 1835-1840. Costumes of high ranking Persian men and women at top, and commoners below. Physiognomy of a Persian man in turban. 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
PIX4634142: Evolution of the universe: from the dark age to galaxies - In this diagram, the upper left represents the cosmic Dark Age, when the universe was so hot that atoms could not form and photons could not travel freely. The red area represents the de-ionization era, when the universe became transparent. The Cosmic Background Radiation comes from this time, Dixon, Don (b.1951) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4634596: Costumes of the Buriats of Siberia (Russia): women with their pompoms and a family scene. Below, a hunter, a dignitary and a shaman holding a small ritual round shield. Lithography for the book: “” Galerie complete en tableaux fideles des peuples d'Asie”” by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche (1785-1863), edition Meissen (Germany), 1835-1840. Costumes of the Burat people of Siberia. Woman in coat with tassels, hunter in reindeer-skin coat with bow and quiver, noble in formal robes. Shamans in long decorated coats carrying round shields and ritual tools. 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
FLO4634646: An itelmen man driving a dog sledding in the snowy plains of Kamchatka (Russia). Lithography for the book: “” Galerie complete en tableaux fideles des peuples d'Asie”” by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche (1785-1863), edition Meissen (Germany), 1835-1840. Itelmen man in furlined clothes riding a dogsled driven by five dogs in Kamchatka. 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
FLO4634331: Japanese costume, circa 1800: a priest, a woman wearing gueta (wooden sandals), a man in official costume with his cane, a beggar monk, two samurais hairstyles in bun (chonmage) and a soldier. Lithography for the book: “” Galerie complete en tableaux fideles des peuples d'Asie”” by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche (1785-1863), edition Meissen (Germany), 1835-1840. Costumes of Japan circa 1800, including a priest, women in geta (wooden sandals), a man in formal robes with cane, a beggar monk, two Japanese men with chonmage hairstyles, kataginu and hakama, carrying swords, and a soldier. 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