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
FLO4562441: Spikeweed sphinx on a strawberry tree - Willowherb hawkmoth, Proserpinus proserpina, on a strawberry bush, Fragaria ananassa. 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
FLO4562565: Woman in afternoon dress in white silk chiffon and lace, with a cape and a hat, creation Drecoll, 1926 - Woman in afternoon dress in white silk and lace with fringed cape and cloche hat - Lithograph with stencil handcolour from the luxury French fashion magazine “” Art, Gout, Beaute,”” 1926 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4562586: Femme elegante en robe de crepe de chine printed with assorted coat and umbrella and another wearing a set three pieces en crepe print, 1926 - Woman in afternoon dress in printed crepe de chine with parasol and woman in three-piece suit in printed crepe - Lithograph with stencil handcolour from the luxury French fashion magazine “” Art, Gout, Beaute,”” 1926 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4562654: English soprano opera singer Mme Alexandrine-Caroline Branchu 1780-1850 as Hippermnestre in Les Danaides by Antonio Salieri at the Opera de Paris, 1817. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Charles Malo's Almanach des Spectacles by K. Y. Z, Chez Louis Janet, Paris, 1819. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4562711: The ballerina Emilie Bigottini 1784-1858 dancing in the opera Nina, o sia la pazza per amore (Nina or the girl driven mad by love) by Giovanni Paisiello at the Opera Theatre, Paris, 1816. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Charles Malo's Almanach des Spectacles by K. and Z, Chez Janet, Paris, 1818. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4563113: White rose, Rosa lucida. 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
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
FLO4577819: Soap factory: a man stirts a tank full of fat into a boil, another cuts the hardened soap with a copper wire - Soap boiler making soap in a factory. A man stirs a vat of boiling fat and ley, while another cuts the hardened soap with a copper wire in wooden frames. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts. / Bridgeman Images