FLO4685861: Baron and baroness, reign of Charles VIII, 1493. Handcoloured steel engraving by Polidor Pauquet after a contemporary manuscript from the Pauquet Brothers' “” Modes et Costumes Historique” (Historical Fashions and Costumes), Paris, 1865. Hippolyte (b. 1797) and Polydor Pauquet (b. 1799) ran a successful publishing house in Paris in the 19th century, specializing in illustrated books on costume, birds, butterflies, anatomy and natural history. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4686092: Gentleman, reign of Charles IX, 1572. Handcoloured steel engraving by Polidor Pauquet after Gaignieres from the Pauquet Brothers' “” Modes et Costumes Historique” (Historical Fashions and Costumes), Paris, 1865. Hippolyte (b. 1797) and Polydor Pauquet (b. 1799) ran a successful publishing house in Paris in the 19th century, specializing in illustrated books on costume, birds, butterflies, anatomy and natural history. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4723636: Soldier indien - Indian sepoy (soldier) of the Bengal Army in helmet, jacket with epaulettes, shorts and slippers, carrying a musket and sword - Handcoloured woodcut by Vermorcken 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), Bookshop Historique Artistique, Brussels, 1845 / Bridgeman Images