FLO4687486: Cabiai or capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris, Cavia capybara), the largest rodent in the world, lives in South America. Its meat is eaten and tastes like a bad fish. Lithographie in The Naturalist Pocket Magazine or Cabinet complete des Curiosites et Beautes de la Nature, published between 1798 and 1802, by Harrison, London, England. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4685841: Shepherdess, reign of Charles VIII, 1491. Handcoloured steel engraving by Polidor Pauquet after a contemporary work 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
FLO4687249: Flying fish (Exocoetus), living in warm seas, where it is hunted by sea bream, its very developed pectoral fins allow it to jump out of the water and soar for a few moments, or it becomes prey to the albatrosses. Illustration by George Edwards (1694-1773). Lithographie in The Naturalist Pocket Magazine or Cabinet complete des Curiosites et Beautes de la Nature, published between 1798 and 1802, by Harrison, London, England. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4688567: The Four Bears, Mah-to-Toh-pa, second chief of the Mandan or Numakiki nation. In undress, being in mourning, with a few locks of hair cut off. His hair put up in plaits or slabs, with glue and red paint, a custom of the tribe. Handcoloured lithograph by J. Harris after a painting by George Catlin from James Cowles Prichard's Natural History of Man, Balliere, London, 1855., Catlin, George (1796-1872) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4685834: Women of the environs of Paris, reign of Charles VII, 1443. Handcoloured steel engraving by Hippolyte Pauquet after Gaignieres 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
FLO4689205: Vase with reliefs of Achilles (L), vase with Hercules in the garden of the Hesperides (C), and vase with reliefs designed by Lady Templeton (R). Chromolithograph by W. Griggs from Frederick Rathone's Old Wedgwood, the Decorative or Artistic Ceramic Work Produced by Josiah Wedgwood, Quaritch, London, 1898. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4685867: Page with horn, reign of Louis XII, 1500. Handcoloured steel engraving by Hippolyte Pauquet after Xavier Willemin (1763-1833), French antiquarian and engraver, 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
FLO4687398: Chinese butterfly with black and red white wings. Identified by George Edwards (1694-1773) in Natural History Gleanings. Lithographie in The Naturalist Pocket Magazine or Cabinet complete des Curiosites et Beautes de la Nature, published between 1798 and 1802, by Harrison, London, England. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4687844: Red apple ingestrie (domestic apple tree). Lithograph after the illustration of Augusta Withers (1793-1877), published in the “Pomology Magazine” (1828-1830) by John Lindley (1795-1865). Red Ingestrie apple, Malus domestica, hybrid of an Orange Pippin and Old Golden Pippin raised at Wormsley Grange. Illustration by Mrs. Withers. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by S. Watts from J. Lindley's “” Pomological Magazine,” London, 1828-1930. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4685762: Guinea pig and capybara - Guinea pig, Cavia porcellus, and capybara, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Sydenham Edwards from John Mason Good's Pantologia, a New Encyclopedia, G. Kearsley, London, 1813., Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images