ITR4561860: Large apartment of King Louis XIV (1638-1715) called the flat of the planets, Venus lounge with intervention by Jules Hardouin-Mansart (1646-1708). Chateau de Versailles (Les Yvelines). Principal architects Louis Le Vau (1612-1670) and Jules Hardouin Mansart (1646-1708), 1660-1700. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4562401: Little mother of pearl and fly on a wild (or tricolor) pensee - Queen of Spain fritillary butterfly, Issoria lathonia, and common stiletto fly, Thereva nobilitata, on wild pansies, Viola tricolor. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and etched by Jacob l'Admiral in Naauwkeurige Waarneemingen omtrent de veranderingen van veele Insekten (Accurate Descriptions of the Metamorphoses of Insects), J. Sluyter, Amsterdam, 1774. For this second edition, M. Houttuyn added another eight plates to the original 25. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4563076: Pink swamp rose, Rosa pensylvanica (Rosa palustris). Handcoloured copperplate botanical drawn, engraved and coloured by Henry Charles Andrews for his own “Roses, a monograph of the genus Rosa,” London, 1806. Andrews was an English botanist, artist and engraver who published the “” Botanist's Repository”” from 1797 to 1812 and separate volumes on roses, geraniums and heaths. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4564986: Fancy dress costume for the game of chess, with dress of chessboard pattern, crown, bodice decorated with chess pieces. Handcoloured lithograph after a design by Leon Sault from “” L'Art du Travestissement” (The Art of Fancy Dress), Paris, c.1880. Sault was a theatre and opera designer and luxury fashion magazine publisher. / Bridgeman Images