FLO4612386: Spotted crake, Porzana porzana. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his own “Natural History of British Birds,” London, 1794-1819. Edward Donovan (1768-1837) was an Anglo-Irish amateur zoologist, writer, artist and engraver. He wrote and illustrated a series of volumes on birds, fish, shells and insects, opened his own museum of natural history in London, but later he fell on hard times and died penniless., Donovan, Edward (1768-1837) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4611022: Mammiferes: Buffalo and auroch (species eteinte) - Lithography, illustration by Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780-1885) edited by Pierre Jean Francois Turpin (1775-1840), extracted from the “dictionary of natural sciences” by Antoine de Jussieu (1686-1758) - Water buffalo, Bubalus bubalis, and extinct auroch, Bos urus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving, illustration by J. G. Pretre (1780-1845), directed by P. J.F. Turpin, from Antoine de Jussieu's “” Dictionary of Natural Science,”” 1837 / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4900485: Dec. 12, 1953 - Princess Margaret goes to the Ice show and chats with comedian Norman Wisdom. H.R.H. Princess Margaret last evening attended a special gala performance of the” Sinbad the Sailor on Ice” show at London's Empress Hall. Proceeds of the performance went to the Endowment Fund of the girl guides Association of which the princess is Chief Ranger of the British Empire / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4900661: Dec. 12, 1953 - The Sleeping Beauty ~ tight rope walker.: The Sleeping Beauty of the fairy-tale is a fragile Princess. But the Sleeping Beauty to be danced by Leslie Caron in the new English ballet” La Belle au Bois Dorman” is a gay little English wight-rope walker. Miss Caron's rope in the ballet, which is by Roland Pete and opens in London tonight - is a foot-wide plank / Bridgeman Images
FLO4562301: Ornamental white flowers with fine pink lines of Crinum procerum, variete of lilies from Rangoon (Burma, Myanmar). Illustration by William Herbert (1778-1847, monk, poet and botanist, specialist of bulb plants), engraving by Weddell. Eau forte in The Curtis Botanical Magazine, by Samuel Curtis, 1826, with the help of William Jackson Hooper, professor of botany at the University of Glascow (Scotland). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4562711: The ballerina Emilie Bigottini 1784-1858 dancing in the opera Nina, o sia la pazza per amore (Nina or the girl driven mad by love) by Giovanni Paisiello at the Opera Theatre, Paris, 1816. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Charles Malo's Almanach des Spectacles by K. and Z, Chez Janet, Paris, 1818. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4564942: Fancy dress costume for Spring, with embroidered silk dress of flowers and swallows. Handcoloured lithograph after a design by Leon Sault from “” L'Art du Travestissement” (The Art of Fancy Dress), Paris, c.1880. Sault was a theatre and opera designer and luxury fashion magazine publisher. / Bridgeman Images