FLO4563028: Bignone has large flowers or Chinese bignone. Lithograph in The New Practical Gardener, by James Anderson, published in Glascow in 1872. / Bridgeman Images

LRI4563143: Frontispiece of Tribus Generibus Instrumentorum Musicae Veterum (Engraving, 1742), Italian School, (18th century) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4563185: Flora, crowned with a garden of flowers, offering floral tributes to three figures - Botany (shown holding an alembic), Physics (who is looking through a magnifying glass) and Pomona (who holds a spade and basket of fruit). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Mario Cammerari from Professor Filippo Arena's La natura e cultura dei fiori fisicamente esposta (The nature and culture of flowers physically displayed), Palermo, Italy, 1771. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4563281: Guelder-rose, Viburnum opulus 1, red scabious, Scabiosa peregrina 2, mountain scabious, Pterocephalus dumetorum 3, devil's bit, Succisa pratensis 4, and thistle protea, Protea scolymocephala 5-7. (Sambucus, Scabiosa, Scolymocephalus.) Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Mario Cammerari from Professor Filippo Arena's La natura e cultura dei fiori fisicamente esposta (The nature and culture of flowers physically displayed), Palermo, Italy, 1771. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4563544: Licorice or liquorice, Glycyrrhiza glabra. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus' Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse, (Handbook of all medical-pharmaceutical plants), Jena, 1876. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4563697: Oregano, Origanum vulgare. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus' Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse, (Handbook of all medical-pharmaceutical plants), Jena, 1876. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4564017: Hollyhock, Alcea rosea (Althaea rosea). Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus' Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse, (Handbook of all medical-pharmaceutical plants), Jena, 1876. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4564176: Black mustard, Brassica nigra. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus' Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse, (Handbook of all medical-pharmaceutical plants), Jena, 1876. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4564961: Fancy dress costume of Cards, with dress of diamonds, clubs, headdress of cards, and heart shaped bodice. 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

FLO4562317: Elegant greenhouse flower, purple and white from African Corymbose, Cape of Good Esperance (South Africa). Illustration by William Jackson Hoker (1785-1865), British botanist and writer, professor at the University of Glasgow (Scotland) and editor of Botanical Magazine, 1827a 1865. Strong water, engraved by Swan, in William Curtis Botanical Magazine, 1826. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4562486: Afternoon coat, blue velvet with fur trimmed, 1926 -Afternoon coat in blue velvet with fur trim - Lithograph with stencil handcolour from the luxury French fashion magazine “” Art, Gout, Beaute,”” 1926 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4562654: English soprano opera singer Mme Alexandrine-Caroline Branchu 1780-1850 as Hippermnestre in Les Danaides by Antonio Salieri at the Opera de Paris, 1817. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Charles Malo's Almanach des Spectacles by K. Y. Z, Chez Louis Janet, Paris, 1819. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4562697: Actress and singer Jenny Vertpre (Francoise Fann Vausgien, 1797-1865) as Le petit chaperon in the comic opera le Peer Chaperon Rouge by Francois-Adrien Boieldieu at the Theatre de la Porte St. Martin. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Charles Malo's Almanach des Spectacles by K. Y. Z, Chez Louis Janet, Paris, 1819. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4562706: English dancer Miss Clotilde as Calypso in the ballet Les Aventures de Telemaque at the Opera, Paris. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Charles Malo's Almanach des Spectacles by K. Y. Z, Chez Louis Janet, Paris, 1820. / Bridgeman Images

LRI4562715: Frontispice of Toscanello in musica by Pietro Aron, 1562, Unknown Artist, (16th century) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4564395: Bistort, Persicaria bistorta (Polygonum bistorta). Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus' Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse, (Handbook of all medical-pharmaceutical plants), Jena, 1876. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4564730: Euphrasia or eyebright, Euphrasia officinalis var. grandiflora. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus' Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse, (Handbook of all medical-pharmaceutical plants), Jena, 1876. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4564796: Michael Rysbrack (1694-1770), sculptor of Hercules at Stourhead, the equestrian statue of King William, monument to Sir Isaac Newton in Westminster Abbey, etc. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4564801: Couch grass, Elymus repens (Agropyrum repens). Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus' Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse, (Handbook of all medical-pharmaceutical plants), Jena, 1876. / Bridgeman Images

LRI4564843: Portrait of Giacomo Puccini (b/w photo), Unknown photographer, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images

LRI4564924: Portrait of Ranieri Remorini (engraving), Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4564934: Swiss girl, Switzerland and Tyrol. 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

LRI4564965: Portrait of Joseph Rastrelli (engraving), Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images

ZUM4901813: Tue 06, 1975 - They are in a car riding through Bangui after Giscard d'Estaing was welcomed to the Central African Republic by Jean Bedel Bokassa / Bridgeman Images

ZUM4902102: Dec. 12, 1953 - Giant Bridge over the severn.: The biggest bridge in Europe - the third biggest in the world - is to be built across the River Severb as part of the new Government plan to modernise British road services. It will cost between 12,000,000 and 20,000,000. The bride was first suggested 20 years ago. It will connect Bristol and Cardiff and bring all the South-West country into direct touch with the Midlands, saving scores of thousands of miles a day in road transport. It will link the main road from Gloucester to Bristol with Gloucester-South Wales road. Plans for the Severb Bridge the past few years on models at the National Physical Laboratory at Teddington, Middlesex / Bridgeman Images

ZUM4902429: Dec. 15, 1953 - 15-12-53 Child protege to play in Paris - Five year old Danielle Salaman, of Tottenham, a child protege pianist, who played tunes with one finger before she was 18 months old, has been chosen to play at a number of charity concerts in Paris starting on the 27th, December. Keystone Photo Shows: 5-year old Danielle Salaman, seen at the piano at her home last night. Danielle has composed over 50 pieces of music to date / Bridgeman Images

ZUM4902093: Apr. 12, 1975 - During his brief visit to Algeria, President Giscard d'Estaing (France) completed the traditional visit to the Rouiba Industrial Complex, a factory that came from Berliet in 1970 to the Algerian Mechanical Construction Company. Boumedienne is the President of Algeria / Bridgeman Images

ZUM4902307: Dec. 13, 1953 - On Way To The United States: Many well known personalities including stars of stage and screen were among the passengers that left Waterloo on the s.s. United States Boat Train - for America this morning / Bridgeman Images

ZUM4902424: 06/06/1975 portrait of the shipowner Yiannis Carras (1907-1989) / Bridgeman Images

ZUM4902684: Francois Mitterrand (1916-1996), First Secretary of the Socialist Party and Georges Marchais (1920-1997), Secretary General of the Communist Party - Sep. 30, 1975 - Called upon by unions and Leftist organizations, millions of Parisians participated in an anti-Franco demonstration that occurred last night from La Republique to La Bastille / Bridgeman Images

ZUM4903072: Jan 20, 1976; Jerusalem, Israel; Israeli politician SHIMON PERES was born on 8/21/1923 and was the 8th Prime Minister if Israel from 1984-1986, he is the current head of the Israeli Labour Party.. / Bridgeman Images

ZUM4902917: Dec. 21, 1953 - Ladies-in-Waiting Place coins on girl guid” Silver Mile” for the Abbey Fund.: Ladies in waiting to be Princess Margaret (Chief Ranger) (Miss Iris Peake) - and to the Princess Royal (President) (Mrs. Cuthbert) - this morning placed coins on the Girl Guide Association” Silver Mile” at Westminster Abbey - for the Abbey Restoration Fund / Bridgeman Images

ZUM4903244: Tue 03, 1976 - Governor Jimmy Carter during a news conference held in Grand Central Station. Governor Carter was here in New York to campaign for the New York Democratic primary / Bridgeman Images

CUB4539164: Foreshortening, Courmayeur, Valle d'Aosta, Italy / Bridgeman Images

CUB4539179: Cable car, Dolonne, Valle d'Aosta, Italy / Bridgeman Images

CUB4539225: Podestà palace, Castell'Arquato, Emilia Romagna, Italy / Bridgeman Images