FLO4673395: Charles IV the Fair, King of France, 1294-1328. He wears a fur hat, gold silk robe lined with squirrel fur, cracows or poulaines, while his horse has a caparison with gold fleurs de lys lined in scarlet. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Massard from “” French Costumes from KingClovis to Our Days,”” Massard, Mifliez, Paris, 1834., Massard, Leopold (1812-1889) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4683877: Boulder star coral, Montastrea annularis. Endangered. (Annular madrepore, Madrepora annularis). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's “” The Naturalist's Miscellany,”” London, 1810. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4684132: Pipa or Suriname toad, description of the female with her young, when hatching protective pockets included in the skin of their mother. Copper engraving by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801) for the naturalist collection, published in 1790 by George Shaw. Pipa or Surinam toad. Pipa pipa (Rana pipa). The female Surinam toad is shown with young frogs hatching from their protective pockets inside the mother's skin. Handcolored copperplate engraving, illustration Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), artist and engraver, from George Shaw's “” Naturalist's Miscellany”” (1790). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4684140: Common green ornithoptere butterfly. Copper engraving by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801) for the naturalist collection, published in 1790 by George Shaw. Common green Birdwing butterfly (Priamus butterfly or the Imperial trojan). Ornithoptera priamus (Papilio priamus). Handcolored copperplate engraving, illustration signed N (Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), artist and engraver) from George Shaw's “” Naturalist's Miscellany”” (1790). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4684194: Sea anemone, branch of the cnidaires. Copper engraving by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), George Shaw's illustration for the naturalist collection, published in 1790 by George Shaw. Sea anemone or anemone actinia. Actinia anemone. Scarlet sea anemone shown in contracted (1) and expanded state (3), “” displaying a triple row of circular tentacula of an oblong form, with obtuse points, of a yellow color and varied with red.” Handcolored copperplate engraving, illustration signed S (George Shaw) from George Shaw's “” Naturalist's Miscellany”” (1790). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4684202: Giant kangaroo. Copper engraving by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), for the naturalist collection, published in 1790 by George Shaw. Great kanguroo or eastern grey kangaroo. Macropus giganteus. Handcolored copperplate engraving, illustration signed N (Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), artist and engraver) from George Shaw's “” Naturalist's Miscellany”” (1790). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4684208: Sea anemone, branch of the cnidaires. Description of the animal's inner tentacles. Copper engraving by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), George Shaw's illustration for the naturalist collection, published in 1790 by George Shaw. Sea anemone or anemone actinia. Actinia anemone. Sea anemone open slightly to reveal “” a few of the interior branchy tentacula or central parts”” (2), and protruding “” almost the whole of its interior parts or viscera in the form of an inflated membrane of a pale yellow colour, and striped very elegantly with rays of red and pale green.” Handcolored copperplate engraving, illustration signed S (George Shaw) from George Shaw's “” Naturalist's Miscellany”” (1790). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4684239: Fulgore carries lantern, lantern fly or peanut bug. Copper engraving by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), George Shaw's illustration for the naturalist collection, published in 1790 by George Shaw. Lantern fly, peanut bug, peanut-headed lanternfly, alligator bug, machaca, great lanthorn-fly or firefly. Fulgora laternaria (Fulgora lanternaria). Madam Merian says, “” the light of one of these insects is so vivid that a person may see to read a newspaper by it... However, she seems to have introduced an imaginary figure, representing the Cicada tibican with the head of a Fulgora. The light emitted by the firefly proceeds entirely from the hollow part, or lantern of the head.” Handcolored copperplate engraving, illustration signed S (George Shaw) from George Shaw's “” Naturalist's Miscellany”” (1790). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4684305: Boa constrictor, formerly known as boa devin or aviosa. Copper engraving by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), George Shaw's illustration for the naturalist collection, published in 1790 by George Shaw. Great boa. Boa constrictor. Handcolored copperplate engraving, illustration signed S (George Shaw) from George Shaw's “” Naturalist's Miscellany”” (1790). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4684308: Blue morpho butterfly. Copper engraving by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), George Shaw's illustration for the naturalist collection, published in 1790 by George Shaw. Menelaus Blue Morpho butterfly. Morpho menelaus (Papilio menelaus). Iridescent blue tropical butterfly native to Central and South America. Handcolored copperplate engraving, illustration signed S (George Shaw) from George Shaw's “” Naturalist's Miscellany”” (1790). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4684313: Banks or banksian. Copper engraving by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), George Shaw's illustration for the naturalist collection, published in 1790 by George Shaw. Red tailed Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii, Calyptorhynchus magnificus), Banksian or Bank's Black Cockatoo. Handcolored copperplate engraving, illustration signed SN (George Shaw and Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), artist and engraver) from George Shaw's “” Naturalist's Miscellany”” (1790). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4684329: The hairy stapele. Copper engraving by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), George Shaw's illustration for the naturalist collection, published in 1790 by George Shaw. Fetid stapelia or carrion flower. Stapelia hirsuta. Handcolored copperplate engraving, illustration signed S (George Shaw) from George Shaw's “” Naturalist's Miscellany”” (1790). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4684353: Lippu bear or lazy bear or long-lipped bear. Copper engraving by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), drawing by M. Catton, for the naturalist collection, published in 1790 by George Shaw. Ursiform sloth, ursine bradypus or sloth bear. Melursus ursinus (Bradypus ursinus). An arboreal, nocturnal and insectivorous species of bear restricted to the Indian subcontinent. Drawing by Mr. Catton. Handcolored copperplate engraving, by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), artist and engraver, from George Shaw's “” Naturalist's Miscellany”” (1790). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4684355: Lazy has three fingers. Copper engraving by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801) for the naturalist collection, published in 1790 by George Shaw. Three-toed sloth or pale-throated sloth. Bradypus tridactylus. Handcolored copperplate engraving, illustration signed N (Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), artist and engraver) from George Shaw's “” Naturalist's Miscellany”” (1790). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4684738: Bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus, sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus, short-beaked dolphin, Delphinus delphis, extinct Steller's sea cow, Hydrodamalis gigas, West Indian manatee, Trichechus manatus, and narwhal, Monodon monoceros. Lithograph from Lorenz Oken's Universal Natural History, Allgemeine Naturgeschichte fur alle Stande, Stuttgart, 1841. / Bridgeman Images