FLO4619073: Regency fops and courtesans waltzing in the Argyll Rooms, Regent Street. Among the courtesans are Nelly Mansell, Emma Richardson, Ellen Hanbury, Dolly Drinkwater and Fanny Myers. The Cyprian's Ball at the Argyle Rooms. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Robert Cruikshank from The English Spy, London, 1825. Written by Bernard Blackmantle, a pseudonym for Charles Molloy Westmacott. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4619237: Regency gentlemen on horseback observing unusual characters such as a man in a tartan coat, a couple in a tiny coach The Sovereign drawn by two men in top hats, a woman riding sidesaddle, etc. Eccentrics in the High Street, Cheltenham. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Robert Cruikshank from The English Spy, London, 1825. Written by Bernard Blackmantle, a pseudonym for Charles Molloy Westmacott. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4619373: Christmas Cactus - Lithography by J. Swan, based on an illustration by William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), extract from Exotic Flora, Scotland, 1823 - Christmas cactus, Schlumbergera truncata (Truncated cactus, Cactus truncatus) - Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Swan J. after a botanical illustration by W. Hooker from his own “” Exotic Flora,”” Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4619499: St. John's Wort Euphorbe - Lithograph by J. Swan, based on an illustration by William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), extract from Exotic Flora, Scotland, 1823 - Graceful spurge or hypericum-leaved spurge, Euphorbia hypericifolia - Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Swan after a botanical illustration by W. J. Hooker from his own “” Exotic Flora,”” Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4619507: White flowers Lobelie - Lithography by J. Swan, based on an illustration by William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), extract from Exotic Flora, Scotland, 1823 - Diastatea micrantha (Small-flowered lobelia, Lobelia micrantha) - Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Swan after a botanical illustration by W. J. Hooker from his own Exotic “” Flora, Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4618818: The festival of Eton Montem with the procession up Mount Salt Hill. Held every three years, Eton college old boys climbed the local hill and paid salt to the school. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Robert Cruikshank from The English Spy, London, 1825. Written by Bernard Blackmantle, a pseudonym for Charles Molloy Westmacott. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4619700: Walker's Schizopetalon - Lithography by J. Swan, based on an illustration by William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), extract from Exotic Flora, Scotland, 1823 - Walker's schizopetalon, Schizopetalon walkeri - Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Swan after a botanical illustration by W. J. Hooker from his own “Exotic Flora,” Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4619727: Fougere: wood liquor or vulgar polypod - Lithography by J. Swan, from an illustration by William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), extract from Flore Exotic, Scotland, 1823 - Toothed snailfern, Cochlidium serrulatum (serrated grammitis, Grammitis serrulata) - Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Swan a botanical illustration by W. J. Hooker from his own “” Exotic Flora,”” Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4619740: Fougere: rough doodia - Lithography by J. Swan, from an illustration by William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), extract from Flore Exotic, Scotland, 1823 - Prickly rasp ferm or rigid doodia, Doodia aspera - Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Swan after a botanical illustration by W. J. Hooker from his own Exotic “” Flora,”” Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4614379: Longspine snipefish, Macroramphosus scolopax (Snipe or trumpet fish, Centriscus scolopax). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his Natural History of British Fishes, Donovan and F.C. and J. Rivington, London, 1802-1808., Donovan, Edward (1768-1837) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4612989: Eurasian foot-white woodcock, Scolopax rusticola. 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