FLO4686552: Chevelier of the order of the shoe or of Saint Mark of the serene republic of Venice - Knights of the Calza, (silk stocking), a Venetian order of chivalry, after Vittorio Carpaccio, 1506 - Handcoloured steel engraving by Hippolyte Pauquet from the Pauquet Brothers' “” Foreign Fashions and Costumes Ancient and Modern Modern), Paris, 1865 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4686563: Young girl from the Canton of Thurgau, Switzerland, 18th century, after Franz Hegi. Handcoloured steel engraving by Hippolyte Pauquet from the Pauquet Brothers' “” Modes et Costumes Etrangers Anciens et Modernes” (Foreign Fashions and Costumes Ancient and Modern), 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
FLO4686604: Khatchadour D'hohannes, officer of the Prince Royal of Persia, 1816, after de Lecluse. Handcoloured steel engraving by Hippolyte Pauquet from the Pauquet Brothers' “” Modes et Costumes Etrangers Anciens et Modernes” (Foreign Fashions and Costumes Ancient and Modern), 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
FLO4686618: Michael Sutzos (1784-1864), Prince of Moldova - Michael Sutzos, Prince of Moldova, 1820, after L. Dupre. Handcoloured steel engraving by Polydor Pauquet from the Pauquet Brothers' “” Modes et Costumes Etrangers Anciens et Modernes” (Foreign Fashions and Costumes Ancient and Modern), 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
FLO4686623: Dancing girl of Shemakha, Azerbaijan, 1820, after Prince Gagarin. Handcoloured steel engraving by Polydor Pauquet from the Pauquet Brothers' “” Modes et Costumes Etrangers Anciens et Modernes” (Foreign Fashions and Costumes Ancient and Modern), 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
FLO4702054: Melisse officinale (Melissa officinalis). Hand-coloured copper engraving from an illustration by James Sowerby. Excerpt from the book of William Woodville and Sir William Jackson Hooker “” Botanique medicinale”” 1832. The tireless Sowerby (1757-1822) drew more than 2500 plants for Smith Mammoth “English Botanical”” (1790-1814) and 440 mushrooms for colourful representations of English mushrooms” (1797) among many other works., Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4702080: Sweet fennel (or Provence fennel). Hand-coloured copper engraving from a drawing by James Sowerby (1757-1822), in Botanique Medicinale, 1832, by William Woodville and Sir William Jackson. Fennel, Anethum foeniculum, spice. Handcolored copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Woodville and Sir William Jackson Hooker's “” Medical Botany”” 1832. The tireless Sowerby (1757-1822) drew over 2,500 plants for Smith's mammoth “” English Botany”” (1790-1814) and 440 mushrooms for “” Coloured Figures of English Fungi “” (1797) among many other works., Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4702032: Compendial borage. Hand-coloured copper engraving from a drawing by James Sowerby (1757-1822), in Botanique Medicinale, 1832, by William Woodville and Sir William Jackson. Blue flowered borage, Borago officinalis. Handcolored copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Woodville and Sir William Jackson Hooker's “” Medical Botany”” 1832. The tireless Sowerby (1757-1822) drew over 2,500 plants for Smith's mammoth “” English Botany”” (1790-1814) and 440 mushrooms for “” Coloured Figures of English Fungi “” (1797) among many other works., Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4702669: Inscription on the tomb of King Dagobert I (ca. 602-638) in St. Denis 180, Frankish pillars and arch 181-184, and a Frankish church 185. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4686820: Fashionable dandies and ladies dancing a quadrille in a park. Life on Tip-toe, or Dick Wildfire Quadrilling it in the Salon de Mars in the Champs Elysees. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cruikshank from David Carey's Life in Paris, the Rambles, Sprees and Amours of Dick Wildfire, Fairburn, London, 1822. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4686834: Riff-raff competing for bread and wine at the Fete of St. Louis. Evening of the Fete of St. Louis, or Dick, Jenkins and the Halibuts witnessing the Canaille in all their glory. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cruikshank from David Carey's Life in Paris, the Rambles, Sprees and Amours of Dick Wildfire, Fairburn, London, 1822. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4686972: Candelabra (left) from the Casa del Panettiere or House of the Baker, VII.III.30, candelabra (right) and frieze (top) from House of Caecilius Iucundus, V.I.26, arabesques with griffins from Casa dei Dioscuri or House of Castor and Pollux, VI.IX.6, and ornament from the House of Apollo, VI.VII 23. Chromolithograph by Victor Steeger after an illustration by Geremia Discanno from Emile Presuhn (1844-1878) The Most Beautiful Paintings of Pompeii, Leipzig, 1881., Discanno, Geremia (1839-1907) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4687026: Allegorical wall painting of Spring from the west side of the atrium of Regio IX.V.11. She holds a basket of cheese and carries a lamb over her shoulders. Chromolithograph by J.G. Bach after an illustration by Geremia Discanno from Emile Presuhn (1844-1878) The Most Beautiful Paintings of Pompeii, Leipzig, 1881., Discanno, Geremia (1839-1907) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4687231: Zebu (Bos indicus), humpback domestic cattle, under Indian species. Originally published by George Edwards (1694-1773), based on a drawing provided by Sir Hans Sloane. Lithographie in The Naturalist Pocket Magazine or Cabinet complete des Curiosites et Beautes de la Nature, published between 1798 and 1802, by Harrison, London, England. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4687249: Flying fish (Exocoetus), living in warm seas, where it is hunted by sea bream, its very developed pectoral fins allow it to jump out of the water and soar for a few moments, or it becomes prey to the albatrosses. Illustration by George Edwards (1694-1773). Lithographie in The Naturalist Pocket Magazine or Cabinet complete des Curiosites et Beautes de la Nature, published between 1798 and 1802, by Harrison, London, England. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4702462: Anglo Saxon lyres 122, 123, harps 124, 125, violin 126, bell 127 and horse with bridle and saddle 128. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's “” Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages,”” Chez Collignon, Metz, 1810. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4702952: A carousel parade among teams of knights representing the four elements fire, wind, earth and water. Part of the celebration of the birth of Freiderich, Duke of Wurttemberg, 1616. Taken from Delineation und Abbildung aller furstlichen Anzug und Ritterspielen by Esaias von Hulsen, 1617. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4702781: Saint Guthlac de Croyland - St. Guthlac of Crowland (673-714) is ordained by Bishop Headda of Lichfield. From the Guthlac Roll. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages. / Bridgeman Images