FLO4669180: Balloon plant, Cardiospermum halicacabum, and goosefoot. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrations only, with captions in Latin, Greek, French, Italian, German, and in English manuscript. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4669647: Foreign levee in the Library at Buckingham Palace. Foreign dignitaries in military uniform in a large room with windows onto a garden. Steel engraving by Henry Melville after an illustration by Gilbert from London Interiors, Their Costumes and Ceremonies, Joshua Mead, London, 1841. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4669934: Anemone-leaved geranium, Geranium anemonefolium, three-coloured pelargonium, Pelargonium tricolor, thick-stemmed pelargonium, Pelargonium crassicaule, ivy-leaved pelargonium, Pelargonium peltatum, and horse-shoe pelargonium, Pelargonium zonale. Handfinished chromolithograph by Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs. Jane Loudon's Ladies Flower Garden or Ornamental Greenhouse Plants, William S. Orr, London, 1849. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4670092: Organ mountains escallonia, Escallonia organensis, blue flowered Japanese hydrangea, Hydrangea japonica caerulea, and fragrant luculia, Luculia gratissima. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs. Jane Loudon's Ladies Flower Garden or Ornamental Greenhouse Plants. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4670098: Asiatic torenia, Torenia asiatica, Dr. Lindley's buddlea, Buddlea lindleyana, clammy anthocercis, Anthocercis viscosa, twining rhodochiton, Rhodochiton volubile, lycium-like solanum lycioides, orange-flowered cestrum, Cestrum aurantiacum, and many-flowered chaenum Chaenostoma polyanthum. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs. Jane Loudon's Ladies Flower Garden or Ornamental Greenhouse Plants. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4669753: Additional Library at the British Museum. The British Museum had 13 miles of shelves and its catalog of books ran to 61 folio volumes. Steel engraving by Radclyffe after an illustration by Llewellyn Jewitt from London Interiors, Their Costumes and Ceremonies, Joshua Mead, London, 1841. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4670313: Musk hibiscus, Hibiscus moschatus, three-lobed lavatera, Lavatera triloba, Thuringian latavera, Lavatera thuringiaca, finger-leaved nuttalia, Nuttalia digitata, poppy-like nuttalia, Nuttalia papaver, mallow-flowered sida, Sida malvaeflora, and scarlet cristaria, Cristaria coccinea. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs. Jane Loudon's Ladies Flower Garden of Ornamental Perennials, William S. Orr, London, 1849. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4670329: Poppy anemone, Anemone coronaria, star anemone, A. stellata, blue mountain anemone, A. appenia, palmate anemone, A. palmata, yellow wood anemone, A. ranunculoides, vine-leaved anemone, A. vitifolia, narcissus-flowered anemone, A. narcissiflora, and common wood anemone, A. nemone. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs. Jane Loudon's Ladies Flower Garden of Ornamental Perennials, William S. Orr, London, 1849. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4670470: Golden coreopsis, Coreopsis aurea, large-flowered coreopsis, C. grandiflora, lanceolate-leaved coreopsis, C. lanceolata, six-leaved coreopsis, C. senifolia, whorl-leaved coreopsis, C. verticillata, and smooth-leaved heliopsis, Heliopsis laevis. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs. Jane Loudon's Ladies Flower Garden of Ornamental Perennials, William S. Orr, London, 1849. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4670525: Three-coloured arctotis, Arctotis tricolor, spotted arctotis, Arctotis maculata, showy arctotis, Arctotis speciosa, and narrow-leaved grindelia, Grindelia angustifolia. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs. Jane Loudon's Ladies Flower Garden of Ornamental Perennials, William S. Orr, London, 1849. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4670723: Mr. Murray's penstemon, Penstemon murrayanus, cut-leaved penstemon, P. argutus, and cobaea-like penstemon, P. cobaea. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs. Jane Loudon's Ladies Flower Garden of Ornamental Perennials, William S. Orr, London, 1849. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4670749: Scarlet Buenos Ayres vervain, Verbena melindres, germander-like vervain, Verbena teucroides, bluish vervain, Verbena caerulescens, and Mr. Tweedie's vervain, Verbena tweediana. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs. Jane Loudon's Ladies Flower Garden of Ornamental Perennials, William S. Orr, London, 1849. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4670657: Mr. Coldry's phlox, Phlox coldryana, sweet-scented phlox, Phlox odorata, blue Canadian phlox, Phlox canadensis, and Van Houtte's phlox. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs. Jane Loudon's Ladies Flower Garden of Ornamental Perennials, William S. Orr, London, 1849. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4670837: White admiral, Limenitis camilla, dorsal and ventral, and southern white admiral, Limenitis reducta. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis Nicolas Noel from Hippolyte Lucas' Natural History of European Butterflies, Histoire Naturelle des Lepidopteres d'Europe, 1864. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4670742: Brilliant-flowered sage, Salvia fulgens, spreading sage, Salvia patens, Mr. Graham's sage, Salvia grahami, and narrow-leaved sage, Salvia angustifolia. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs. Jane Loudon's Ladies Flower Garden of Ornamental Perennials, William S. Orr, London, 1849. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4681221: Arabian cowry varieties, Mauritius arabica (Brittle cowry, Cypraea fragilis and Arabian cowry, Cypraea arabica). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, London, 1804. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4680853: Long-horned beetle (Macrodontia cervicornis). Signed illustration RN (Richard Nodder). Copper engraving for the naturalist collection, published in 1796 by George Shaw and Frederick Nodder. Long-horned beetle, Macrodontia cervicornis. Vulnerable. Illustration signed RN (Richard Nodder). Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's “” The Naturalist's Miscellany””” 1796. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4680875: Terebelle, sedentary sea worm with gills (Terebella madreporarum). Signed illustration RN (Richard Nodder). Copper engraving for the naturalist collection, published in 1796 by George Shaw and Frederick Nodder. Madrepore terebella, Terebella madreporarum. Illustration signed RN (Richard Nodder). Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's “” The Naturalist's Miscellany””” 1796. / Bridgeman Images