FLO4657001: Fashionable ladies and gentlemen playing the card game Comet (named for the 1758 visit of Halley's comet) in a drawing room. A serving brings carafes of wine. Lithograph by Huyot after Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen from Paul Lacroix 'The Eighteenth Century: Its Institutions, Customs, and Costumes, London, 1876. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4657152: Lady in waiting to Isabelle of Bavaria, wife of King Charles VI, 1389. She wears a tall bonnet with brocade tail, necklace, and red velvet dress with high waist and ermine hem. After a miniature in Roger Gaignieres' portfolio. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Georges Jacques Gatine after an illustration by Louis Marie Lante from Galerie Francaise de Femmes Celebres, Paris, 1827., Gatine, Georges Jacques (1773-1831) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4652539: Whelk, Buccinum undatum 1, Noah's ark, Arca noae 2, noble pen shell, Pinna nobilis 3, Tusus brevis 4, Caltrop murex, Murex tribulus 5, Admiral cone, Conus admiralis 6, volute, Voluta arenata 7, limpet, Patella vulgata 8, and elegant Venus clam, Pitar dione 9. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Georg Wolfgang Knorr from his Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden der Natuur, Blusse and Son, Nuremberg, 1771. Specimens from a Wunderkammer or Cabinet of Curiosities of D. de Hagen, P.L. Muller and A.M. Schadeloock. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4652845: Head of a greater kudu, Tragelaphus strepsiceros, horns of Alpine ibex, Capra ibex, dorcas gazelle, Gazella dorcas, and kudu, Tragelaphus strepsiceros. The head of a Coutou from Africa, an Ibex horn, the horn of a goat from Libya, Capra dorcas, the horn of a Coutou. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Sebastian Leitner after an illustration by Christian Leinberger from Georg Wolfgang Knorr's Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden der Natuur, Blusse and Son, Nuremberg, 1771. Specimens from a Wunderkammer or Cabinet of Curiosities owned by P.L. Muller. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4652901: Indian rhinoceros, Rhinoceros unicornis, and horns of a critically endangered black rhinoceros, Diceros bicornis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Jakob-Andreas Eisemann after an illustration from nature by Johann Christoph Keller from Georg Wolfgang Knorr's Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden der Natuur, Blusse and Son, Nuremberg, 1771. Specimens from a Wunderkammer or Cabinet of Curiosities owned by Dr. Christoph Jacob Trew in Nuremberg. / Bridgeman Images