FLO4678217: A knight of the Blanchfront Family, 1397. He wears a suit of armour with a visored bassinet, silk camail, ornamented mamillieres, round cuffed gauntlets, hauberk, belts ornamented with rosettes, shoulders and elbows with roundels. After a monument in Alvechurch. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by S.R. Meyrick from Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick's A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4677962: Shop girls dressing in the morning. Four shop girls dressing, fixing their hair in front of mirror, adjusting their stockings, playing with a cat. “These little workers show such ingenious coquetry. They wear ordinary negliges, but have the art to add value to simple things.” Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesanger's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4678020: A young mother dandles a baby, while a little girl with a doll leans against her lap. A glance at these engravings is enough to see what one can say about this subject, the prettiest thing in the world. A young mother in the bloom of health playing with her children. What a picture! Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesanger's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4678047: Fashionable women or wonderful eating ice cream with their dogs at a cafe, circa 1800. The menu includes lemon, orange, pistachio, and white cream. “” Parisiennes are the most graceful of women, even when eating greedily.”” Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesanger's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4678098: Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon, wife of King Louis XIV of France, 1653-1719. After an enamel portrait. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Gatine after an illustration by Louis Marie Lante from Pierre de la Mesanger's “Costumes des femmes celebres” (Costumes of Famous Women), Paris, 1827. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4678336: A soldier and knight, 1295. Knight in bacinet helmet, gamboised coat hauberk and chausses, elbow plates, with shield, lance and sword. The soldier wears a hood and chainmail suit, multicoloured leather corium and trellised chausses with metal studs and leather bandages. Handcoloured lithograph by Maddocks after an illustration by S.R. Meyrick from Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick's A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour. / Bridgeman Images