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FLO4605746: Peduncle Oak or White Oak or Female Oak (Quercus robur) - Water by William Clarke to illustrate “” Medical Botanical, Description of the Medicinal Plants of London, Edinburgh and Dublin” by John Stephenson and James Morss Churchill, published in London by John Churchill in 1831 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4606104: Acacia a cachou or cachoutier (Acacia catechu) - Water by William Clarke to illustrate “” Medical Botanical, Description of the Medicinal Plants of London, Edinburgh and Dublin” by John Stephenson and James Morss Churchill, published in London by John Churchill in 1831 / Bridgeman Images
TEC4613862: The Parc des Buttes Chaumont, Paris 19th arrondissement. On the will of Napoleon III (1808-1873) to offer the laborious classes green lungs, the park was brought to old gypsum quarries, which explains its topography. Adolphe Alphand (1817-1891), grand authorizer of Parisian parks with architect engineer Alfred Darcel (1818-1893) drew up the plan of the park. The landscape artist Pierre Barillet Deschamps (1824-1873) planted the park from 1866. Gabriel Davioud (1824-1881) built the restaurant, the guard house, the brewery and the Sibyl temple. Photography 2005. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4613882: The Parc des Buttes Chaumont, Paris 19th arrondissement. On the will of Napoleon III (1808-1873) to offer the laborious classes green lungs, the park was brought to old gypsum quarries, which explains its topography. Adolphe Alphand (1817-1891), grand authorizer of Parisian parks with architect engineer Alfred Darcel (1818-1893) drew up the plan of the park. The landscape artist Pierre Barillet Deschamps (1824-1873) planted the park from 1866. Gabriel Davioud (1824-1881) built the restaurant, the guard house, the brewery and the Sibyl temple. Photography 2005. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4613901: Parc des Buttes Chaumont, Paris 19th arrondissement. View of the island with at the highest point a reproduction of the temple known as the Sibyl in Tivoli, architect Gabriel Davioud (1824-1881). On the will of Napoleon III (1808-1873) to provide the laborious classes with green lungs, the park was converted to ancient gypsum quarries, which explains its topography. Adolphe Alphand (1817-1891), grand authorizer of Parisian parks with architect engineer Alfred Darcel (1818-1893) drew up the plan of the park. The landscape artist Pierre Barillet Deschampsæ (1824-1873) planted the park from 1866 onwards. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4623527: Ceremony of the creation of a knight. A king dubs a kneeling warrior with a sword, while pages hold his spurs and shield with coat of arms. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Verico after P.L. Sabatelli from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, 1844. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4623853: Bas relief and sculpture at the entrance to Dhumar Lena, Cave 29, of the Ellora Caves, Hindu and Jain rock-cut temples. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1844. / Bridgeman Images
LRI4623975: Portrait of Jean de Medici dit Jean des Bands Noires (Giovanni dalle Bande Nere) (1421-1463) condottiere (Italian condottiero) Painting by Allori Angelo di Cosimo dit Bronzino (1503-1572) 16th century Sun 15x12 cm Palace Medici-Riccardi (Medici Riccardi) Florence, Bronzino, Agnolo di Cosimo (1503-72) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4623982: Indian sapuriya or snake charmers performing to music from a tobrie or pipe musician. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Andrea Bernieri after Francois Solvyns from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1844., Bernieri, Andrea (1792-1849) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4624024: Indian transport: sedan chair or palanquins. Long palanquin, miyana, jhalidar palki, and copala palki. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Andrea Bernieri after Francois Solvyns from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1844., Bernieri, Andrea (1792-1849) / Bridgeman Images
OMG4606451: La Colonne Vendome, Place Vendome, the night in Paris. Today's square dates back to 1699 and was designed by Jules Hardouin Mansart (1646-1708). And it was only with the piercing of the Rue de la Paix that the Vendome Column was erected in 1806 by Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) to the glory of the victors of Austerlitz (1805). An admirer of Roman Antiquity, the Emperor took as model the Trajane column raised in Rome and had his statue erected as an imperator by Antoine Chaudet (1763-1810). After the regime changes, Napoleon III (1808-1873) installed a copy of the statue of the Emperor by Augustine Dumont (1801-1884). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4606489: Woman in the Kiss bonnet, Beanie at Becquot, with tails hanging behind. Becquot was a slang term for a kiss among the gallants. Handcoloured lithograph by de Laubadere from Octave Uzane's Stylish Hairstyle or Eccentric Finery from the era of King Louis XVI, Hairstyles de Style, La Parure Eccentric, Rouveyre, Paris, 1895. / Bridgeman Images