FLO4594631: Dress of the reign of King Henry VII, 1485-1509. She wears a frontlet headdress with blue embroidered top and gold-decorated wings, jeweled necklace, a purple velvet dress with gold belt and cuffs. The frontlet was worn as late as the reign of James I. Based on an ancient tapestry, Royal manuscript. Handcoloured lithograph from “” Costumes of British Ladies from the Time of William the First to the Reign of Queen Victoria”, London, Dickinson and Son, 1840. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4594736: Dress (Robe) of the reign of King George II, 1727-1760. She wears jewels in her hair, a velvet dress trimmed with ermine, with puff sleeves and long train, over a white petticoat. From portraits of distinguished persons about 1745. Handcoloured lithograph from “” Costumes of British Ladies from the Time of William the First to the Reign of Queen Victoria”, London, Dickinson and Son, 1840. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4594844: Mr. John Pritt Harley as Caleb Quotem in “The Review” at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Robert Cooper after a painting by Michael William Sharp. From D. Terry's “” British Theatrical Gallery,” London, Henry Berthoud Jr., 1825. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4594915: Mr. Giuseppe de Begnis as Don Geronio in “Il Turco in Italia”” at the Italian Opera House Haymarket. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Robert Cooper after a painting by Frederic de Waldeck. From D. Terry's “” British Theatrical Gallery,” London, Henry Berthoud Jr., 1825. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4594962: Miss Lise Noblet, dancer, in the ballet “La Paysanne Supposee” at the Italian Opera House Haymarket. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Robert Cooper after a painting by Frederic de Waldeck. From D. Terry's “” British Theatrical Gallery,” London, Henry Berthoud Jr., 1825. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4595089: Peach varieties, Prunus persica: Late Admirable, blossom, Double Mountain and Red Magdalen. Handcoloured stipple engraving of an illustration by George Brookshaw from his own “” Pomona Britannica,”” London, Longman, Hurst, etc., 1817. The quarto edition of the original folio edition published from 1804-1812. Brookshaw (1751-1823) was a successful cabinet maker who disappeared in the 1790s before returning as a flower painter with the anonymous “” New Treatise on Flower Painting,””” 1797. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4595092: Plum varieties, Prunus domestica: Plum Damson, Common Damson and Royal Dauphin Plum. Handcoloured stipple engraving of an illustration by George Brookshaw from his own “” Pomona Britannica,”” London, Longman, Hurst, etc., 1817. The quarto edition of the original folio edition published from 1804-1812. Brookshaw (1751-1823) was a successful cabinet maker who disappeared in the 1790s before returning as a flower painter with the anonymous “” New Treatise on Flower Painting,””” 1797. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4595214: Scarlet flesh rock melon, Cucumis melo cantalupensis, cut in half to show flesh and seeds. Handcoloured stipple engraving of an illustration by George Brookshaw from his own “” Pomona Britannica,”” London, Longman, Hurst, etc., 1817. The quarto edition of the original folio edition published from 1804-1812. Brookshaw (1751-1823) was a successful cabinet maker who disappeared in the 1790s before returning as a flower painter with the anonymous “” New Treatise on Flower Painting,””” 1797. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4592303: Engines for sharpening cutters by the ingenious mechanic and clockmaker Samuel Rehe (1735-1799) of London, 18th century. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by John Farey Jr. from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1818. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4592222: Electrical equipment, 18th century. Medical machine for electrifying the teeth, thunder house, torpedo, brush, and connecting frame of the Teylerian battery. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1820. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4592322: Plan and section of the great wheel of Jesse Ramsden (1735-1800)'s circular dividing engine, 1773. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1810. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4592425: Face-turning lathe and riveting hammer, Block Machinery at Portsmouth naval harbour, 18th century. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by John Farey Jr. from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1812. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4593271: Steam engines: Jonathan Hornblower's compound steam engine, Edmund Cartwright's alcohol engine and Arthur Woolf's high-pressure compound steam engine, 18th and 19th century. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after an Illustration by J. Farey from Abraham Rees' “” Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary,” London, 1818. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4593876: Pneumatics of aerostation, the science of operating light-tha-air aircraft, with two hot-air balloons and aeronauts. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1820. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4593957: Goudok Rebec fiddle with three strings, Gelaika pipes, double flutes of the ancients, hunting horn of Siberia, Rojok (rozhok) trumpet, and Batalaika (Balalaika) guitar with two strings. From the Russian Antiquities by M. Guthrie. Copperplate engraving by John Lee from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1820. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4594255: Anatomy of human internal organs from the back showing spine, lungs, liver, intestines, gallbladder, etc. Copperplate engraving by Milton from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1820. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4596540: The Ficoide d'Affrique or the Mesenbryantheme. Rosy dewplant, Lampranthus roseus. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz 'Precious and illuminated collection of the most beautiful and curious flowers, grown both in the gardens of China and in those of Europe, Paris, 1776. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4596710: The Bagard. Sacred bamboo, Nandina domestica. Named for Bagard, Prof. of the College Royal des Medecins, Nancy. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz 'Precious and illuminated collection of the most beautiful and curious flowers, grown both in the gardens of China and in those of Europe, Paris, 1776. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4596838: The small rose from China has 5 leaves and has double flowers. Double Chinese hibiscus, Hibiscus rosa-sinensis. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz 'Precious and illuminated collection of the most beautiful and curious flowers, grown both in the gardens of China and in those of Europe, Paris, 1776. / Bridgeman Images