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
FLO4974660: Strie frog fish (Antennarius striatus). Unsigned illustration (George Shaw and Frederick Nodder). Copper engraving for the naturalist collection, published in 1794 by Frederick Nodder (1751-1801) and George Shaw. Striated frogfish, Antennarius striatus. Unsigned illustration (George Shaw and Frederick Nodder). Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's “” The Naturalist's Miscellany””” 1794. / 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
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
FLO4974662: The human flea (Pulex irritans), description of each stage of its development egg, larva (worm-shaped), white larva and insect. Unsigned illustration (George Shaw and Frederick Nodder). Copper engraving for the naturalist collection, published in 1794 by Frederick Nodder (1751-1801) and George Shaw. Human flea, Pulex irritans. Unsigned illustration (George Shaw and Frederick Nodder). Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's “” The Naturalist's Miscellany””” 1794. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4974677: Long-beaked pavilion. Copper engraving by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), for the naturalist collection, published in 1790 by George Shaw. Copperband butterfly fish. Jaculator or shooting fish. Chelmon rostratus (Chaetodon enceladus). Handcolored copperplate engraving, by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), artist and engraver, 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
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
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
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
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