FLO4995445: A Prize Baby Show, Materfamilias rewarding a successful Candidate, 1855. A lady in black shawl gives a cookery book to a young mother in crinolines at a cute baby contest. The baby show was imported from America. In the shadows, a gaunt baby weaned on laudanum and gin. Handcoloured etching by John Leech from Follies of the Year, from Punchõs Pocket Books, Bradbury, London, 1864. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4995471: Volunteer Movement, Jones & Family under Canvass', 1862. Satirical print showing a Victorian family playing soldiers for the Volunteer Force, a part-time territorial army. Handcoloured etching by John Leech from Follies of the Year, from Punchõs Pocket Books, Bradbury, London, 1864. / Bridgeman Images
FLO5003436: Bill Row and John Taylor, two grubbers with iron pick, broom and basket. They search for nails, rings and coins in the cracks between cobblestones. Copperplate etching drawn and engraved by John Thomas Smith from his Vagabondiana, Anecdotes of Mendicant Wanderers through the Streets of London, 1817. / Bridgeman Images
FLO5004807: Common carp, Cyprinus carpio 149, and three fishermen fishing with rod, net and line for carp in a river. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm's Encyclopedia of Natural History: Fish, Augsburg, 1804. Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian clergy and naturalist known as the German Buffon. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4974664: Blue-toned lezard (Tiliqua scincoides scincoides). Unsigned illustration (George Shaw and Frederick Nodder). Copper engraving for the naturalist collection, published in 1794 by Frederick Nodder (1751-1801) and George Shaw. Eastern blue-tongued lizard, Tiliqua scincoides scincoides. Unsigned illustration (George Shaw and Frederick Nodder). Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's “” The Naturalist's Miscellany””” 1794. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4974691: Hybrid duck, a cross between musk and mallard duck. Copper engraving by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), drawing by Maria Sibylla Merian, for the naturalist collection, published in 1790 by George Shaw. Merian duck. Anas merianae. A hybrid between the Muscovy duck Cairo moschata and the domestic mallard Anas platyrhynchos. Illustration copied from drawing by Maria Sibylla Merian. Handcolored copperplate engraving, by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), artist and engraver from George Shaw's “” Naturalist's Miscellany”” (1790). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4974721: Lady of Honour to Marie Antoinette, 1777. Handcoloured steel engraving by Polidor Pauquet after Moreau the younger 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
FLO4974663: Roman mythology: Minerva, goddess of war fury, wisdom, strategy and intelligence, with its attributes, a helmet, a pectoral and a long stick - Eau forte by Jacques Louis Constant Lacerf, following an illustration by Leonard Defrance (1735-1805), extracted from mythology in fabulous prints or divine figures, circa 1820 - Minerva, Roman goddess of wisdom, war, arts and commerce, with helmet, breastplate and staff- Handcoloured copperplate engraving engraved by Jacques Louis Constant Lacerf after illustrations by Leonard Defrance from “” Mythology in Prints or Figures of Fabled Gods””, Chez P. Blanchard, Paris, c 1820 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4974690: Draco lezard or flying dragon. Copper engraving by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801) for the naturalist collection, published in 1790 by George Shaw. Flying dragon, a type of gliding lizard. Draco Volans. Handcolored copperplate engraving, illustration signed N (Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), artist and engraver) from George Shaw's “” Naturalist's Miscellany”” (1790). / Bridgeman Images