FLO4974687: Vegetable mite. Copper engraving by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), George Shaw's illustration for the naturalist collection, published in 1790 by George Shaw. Vegetating mite. Acarus vegetans. Nothing more than the larva or young of the acarus coleoptratorum or common beetle acarus.” Handcolored copperplate engraving, illustration signed S (George Shaw) from George Shaw's “” Naturalist's Miscellany”” (1790). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4974689: Striped mouse, African rodent. Copper engraving, illustration by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801) and George Shaw for the naturalist collection, published in 1790 by George Shaw. Typical Striped Grad Mouse. Lemniscomys striatus. Illustration signed SN (George Shaw and Frederick Nodder). Handcolored copperplate engraving, by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), artist and engraver, from George Shaw's “” Naturalist's Miscellany”” (1790). / 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
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
FLO4974716: Parisian male fashion, reign of Louis XVI (French revolution), 1792. Handcoloured steel engraving by Hippolyte Pauquet after Philibert-Louis Debucourt 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
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