FLO4686623: Dancing girl of Shemakha, Azerbaijan, 1820, after Prince Gagarin. Handcoloured steel engraving by Polydor Pauquet from the Pauquet Brothers' “” Modes et Costumes Etrangers Anciens et Modernes” (Foreign Fashions and Costumes Ancient and Modern), 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
FLO4682007: Secretary bird, Sagittarius serpentarius, vulnerable (African snake-eater, Serpentarius africanus). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, London, 1806. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4682183: Portrait of Nicolas Culpeper (1616-1654), botanist, herbalist doctor and English astrologer. It is described wearing a cape with a large lace collar, inscribed in an oval frame with the signs of the zodiac, topped by a ribbon. Engraving in “” Culpeper's Complete Herbal and English Physician”” Burslem, Tregortha, 1814. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4682642: Perwinkle and carnation, with butterflies - Lithography attributed to Paul Theodor van Brussel (1754-1795), author of the cover bouquet, or A.Bres., influenced by Nicolas Robert (1614-1685), published in “Nederlandsch Bloemwerk” (Dutch Floral Compositions), Amsterdam, J.B. Elwe, 1794 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4682665: Rose, variete Rosa provincialis, with insects - Lithography attributed to Paul Theodor van Brussel (1754-1795), author of the cover bouquet, or A.Bres., influenced by Nicolas Robert (1614-1685), published in “Nederlandsch Bloemwerk” (Dutch Floral Compositions), Amsterdam, J.B. Elwe, 1794 / Bridgeman Images