FLO4607780: Hercules stifles Ante who opposes his passage in Africa -Hercules overcoming Antaeus who opposes his passage into Africa. Copperplate engraving by W. Walker after an illustration by Charles Eisen from The Copper Plate Magazine or Monthly Treasure, G. Kearsley, London, 1778. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4607799: Orphee seduces animals, rocks and trees with her cat and lyre - Orpheus, by his voice and lyre, attracts the attention of the animals, rocks and trees. Copperplate engraving by W. Walker after an illustration by Charles Eisen from The Copper Plate Magazine or Monthly Treasure, G. Kearsley, London, 1778. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4610197: Insect: double-stained coleoptere variete and bird nest neottie plant Lithograph by John Curtis (1791-1862) published in “British Entomology”, collection of 770 illustrations and descriptions of insects from Great Britain, London, England, 1824-1839. Tritoma bipustulatum, Tritoma bipustulata, Double-spotted Tritoma beetle, with bird's nest orchis, Epipactis nidus reviews. Handcoloured copperplate by John Curtis (1791-1862) for his own “” British Entomology, 770 Illustrations and Descriptions of the Genera of Insects found in Great Britain and Ireland,” London, from 1824 to 1839. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4610226: Insect: Heriade guepe variete with a campanule plant. Lithograph by John Curtis (1791-1862) published in “British Entomology”, a collection of 770 illustrations and descriptions of British insects, London, England, 1824 to 1839. Heriades truncorum, Larger Heriades wasp, with corn bell-flower, Campanula hybrida. Handcoloured copperplate by John Curtis (1791-1862) for his own “” British Entomology, 770 Illustrations and Descriptions of the Genera of Insects found in Great Britain and Ireland,” London, from 1824 to 1839. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4610237: Insect: variete of coleoptere staphylinus with a fragrant fuzzy plant or fragrant quackgrass Lithograph by John Curtis (1791-1862) published in “” British Entomology”, collection of 770 illustrations and descriptions of insects from Great Britain, London, England, 1824-1839. Homalota dimidiata, Hygronoma dimidiata, Ochre-banded Staphylinus beetle, with spring grass, Anthoxanthum odoratum. Handcoloured copperplate by John Curtis (1791-1862) for his own “” British Entomology, 770 Illustrations and Descriptions of the Genera of Insects found in Great Britain and Ireland,” London, from 1824 to 1839. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4610316: Flowers of aconite, ancholia, galanthus, hellebore and weeping willow, with details of pistils and etamines). Nectarium of the aconite Aconitum (1,3), columbine Aquilegia (2,4), snowdrop Galanthus (5), hellebore Helleborus (6) and willow Salix (7). Handcoloured copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards for William Curtis's “” Lectures on Botany, as delivered in the Botanic Garden at Lambeth,”” 1805. Edwards (1768-1819) was the artist of thousands of botanical plates for Curtis' “” Botanical Magazine”” and his own “” Botanical Register.””, Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4610375: The veronica little oak or false germandree. Coloured copper engraving, illustration by Sydenham Edwards (1768-1819) for Conferences of Botanical, Botanical Garden of Lambeth (England), 1805, by William Curtis (1746-1799). Germander speedwell, Veronica chamaedrys. Handcoloured copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards for William Curtis's “” Lectures on Botany, as delivered in the Botanic Garden at Lambeth,”” 1805. Edwards (1768-1819) was the artist of thousands of botanical plates for Curtis' “” Botanical Magazine”” and his own “” Botanical Register.””, Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4610401: Hyssop or officinal hyssop. Coloured copper engraving, illustration by Sydenham Edwards (1768-1819) for Conferences of Botanical, Botanical Garden of Lambeth (England), 1805, by William Curtis (1746-1799). Hyssop, Hyssopus officinalis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards for William Curtis's “” Lectures on Botany, as delivered in the Botanic Garden at Lambeth,”” 1805. Edwards (1768-1819) was the artist of thousands of botanical plates for Curtis' “” Botanical Magazine”” and his own “” Botanical Register.””, Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4610422: Auricle or bear ear. Coloured copper engraving, illustration by Sydenham Edwards (1768-1819) for Conferences of Botanical, Botanical Garden of Lambeth (England), 1805, by William Curtis (1746-1799). Auricula, Primula auricula. Handcoloured copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards for William Curtis's “” Lectures on Botany, as delivered in the Botanic Garden at Lambeth,”” 1805. Edwards (1768-1819) was the artist of thousands of botanical plates for Curtis' “” Botanical Magazine”” and his own “” Botanical Register.””, Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4608006: Frederick Hermann, 1st Duke of Schomberg, 1616-1690, within oval in suit of armour, above vignette of his death at the Battle of the Boyne. Copperplate engraving by Ryder after a portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller from The Copper Plate Magazine or Monthly Treasure, G. Kearsley, London, 1778. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4604350: Large branch or large cycas seeds - Queen sago, Cycas circinalis, showing seed and section. Endangered. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret and Chamberet's “” La Flore Medicale,”” Paris, Panckoucke, 1830., Turpin, Pierre Jean Francois (1775-1840) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4606573: Hedgehog hairstyle tied with a ribbon decorated with a garland of flowers and three large curls entitled Spring. Herisson girded with a ribbon with a garland of flowers and 3 curls said to Spring. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by an unknown artist from an Album of Fashionable Hairstyles of 1783, Suite des Coeffures a la Mode en 1783, Enauts et Rapilly, Paris, 1783. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4604716: Himalayan Crocus - Zedoary, Koempferia rotunda, with flower, leaf, stem and root rhizome. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret and Chamberet's “” La Flore Medicale,”” Paris, Panckoucke, 1830., Turpin, Pierre Jean Francois (1775-1840) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4604757: Common Artichoke - Engraving by Lambert fils, based on a drawing by Pierre Jean Francois Turpin (1775-1840), from La flore medicale, by Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet, Paris 1830 - Globe artichoke, Cynara cardunculus var - scolymus - Engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by P - J - F - Turpin from Chaumeton, Poimeton, Poimeton, Poimeton, Poimeton, Poiret Chamberet's “La Flore Medicale,”” Paris, Panckoucke, 1830 - / Bridgeman Images
FLO4606918: Miss Anais or Anais-Pauline-Nathalie Aubert as Misael in Les Macchabees by Alexandre Guiraud, Theatre Royal de l'Odeon, 1822. Handcoloured lithograph by F. Noel after an illustration by Lavigne Marin from Portraits d'Acteurs et d'Actrices dans different roles, F. Noel, Paris, 1825. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4606421: Woman with her hair combed up and in ringlets, surmounted by a tiny bonnet. Handcoloured lithograph by de Laubadere from Octave Uzane's Stylish Hairstyle or Eccentric Finery from the era of King Louis XVI, Hairstyles de Style, La Parure Eccentric, Rouveyre, Paris, 1895. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4606555: Rear view of a Woman's Chignon with two pigtails and four papoose curls called the Chancellor. Chanceliere's bun. Handcoloured lithograph by de Laubadere from Octave Uzane's Stylish Hairstyle or Eccentric Finery from the era of King Louis XVI, Hairstyles de Style, La Parure Eccentric, Rouveyre, Paris, 1895. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4606572: Mars Global Surveyor probe - Artist's view - Mars Global Surveyor probe - Artist's view - The probe was launched on November 7, 1996 and put into orbit around Mars in September 1997. Predicted to observe Mars for two years, it was not until November 2006 that the probe stopped working / Bridgeman Images
FLO4606745: Miss Anne Demerson as Liselle in Le Mari et l'Amant by Jean-Claude Vial, Theatre Francais, 1821. Handcoloured lithograph by F. Noel after an illustration by Alexandre-Marie Colin from Portraits d'Acteurs et d'Actrices dans different roles, F. Noel, Paris, 1825., Colin, Alexandre Marie (1798-1875) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4606959: Contralto singer Madame Montano as Rosine in the opera Le Barbier de Seville by Gioachino Rossini, Theatre Royal de l'Odeon, 1823. Handcoloured lithograph by F. Noel after an illustration by Lavigne Marin from Portraits d'Acteurs et d'Actrices dans different roles, F. Noel, Paris, 1825. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4607025: Charles-Edme Vernet and Dominique in La Famille du Porter d'Eau by Allarde, Gabriel de Lurieu, Theatre des Varietes, 1824. Handcoloured lithograph by F. Noel after an illustration by Alexandre-Marie Colin from Portraits d'Acteurs et d'Actrices dans different roles, F. Noel, Paris, 1825. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4607214: Stardust probe and comet Wild 2 - Artist view - The Stardust probe and comet Wild 2 - Artist view - The Stardust probe was launched on February 7, 1999 with the primary objective of studying the comet Wild 2 and taking samples during a passage through the comet's hair. Stardust was the first probe to collect and bring back to Earth interstellar and cometary dust. The return capsule landed on Earth on 15 January 2006 with the samples. Stardust is an interplanetary spacecraft, whose primary purpose was to investigate the makeup of the comet Wild 2 and its coma. It was launched on February 07 1999 and returned to Earth on January 15 2006. It is the first sample return mission to collect cosmic dust and return the sample to Earth; the capsule contains cometary and interstellar samples gathered by the Stardust spacecraft / Bridgeman Images
FLO4607224: Scarlet bugler, Penstemon barbatus. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and engraved by William Clark from Richard Morris's “Flora Conspicua” London, Longman, Rees, 1826. William Clark was former draughtsman to the London Horticultural Society and illustrated many botanical books in the 1820s and 1830s. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4607237: Stemless gentian, Gentiana acaulis. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and engraved by William Clark from Richard Morris's “Flora Conspicua” London, Longman, Rees, 1826. William Clark was former draughtsman to the London Horticultural Society and illustrated many botanical books in the 1820s and 1830s. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4607243: Tiger flower, Tigridia pavonia. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and engraved by William Clark from Richard Morris's “Flora Conspicua” London, Longman, Rees, 1826. William Clark was former draughtsman to the London Horticultural Society and illustrated many botanical books in the 1820s and 1830s. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4607385: Plains coreopsis or calliopsis, Coreopsis tinctoria. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and engraved by William Clark from Richard Morris's “Flora Conspicua” London, Longman, Rees, 1826. William Clark was former draughtsman to the London Horticultural Society and illustrated many botanical books in the 1820s and 1830s. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4607393: Willow gentian, Gentiana asclepiadea. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and engraved by William Clark from Richard Morris's “Flora Conspicua” London, Longman, Rees, 1826. William Clark was former draughtsman to the London Horticultural Society and illustrated many botanical books in the 1820s and 1830s. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4607472: Dark purple larkspur, Delphinium elegans pleno. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and engraved by William Clark from Richard Morris's “Flora Conspicua” London, Longman, Rees, 1826. William Clark was former draughtsman to the London Horticultural Society and illustrated many botanical books in the 1820s and 1830s. / Bridgeman Images