FLO4677718: Breakfast. Gentlemen in coat tails and breeches and ladies in veils and dresses share a breakfast of coffee and bread. Great familiarity reigns in the morning, one has no time to become ceremonial, breakfast is the honest meal.” Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesanger's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4678629: Peter II, Count of Savoy, Earl of Richmond, and a soldier. 1248. The Earl wears a chainmail hauberk and chausses, tunic, and carries a lance and shield with coat of arms. The footsoldier wears a cargan hood, carries an oucin and round shield. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by S.R. Meyrick from Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick's A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4679302: Orchid: oncidium variete, West Indies epiphyte - Plate engraved by S.Watts, from an illustration by Sarah Anne Drake (1803-1857), from the Botanical Register of Sydenham Edwards (1768-1819), England, 1833 - Oncidium baueri orchid (Lofty oncidium, Oncidium altissimum) - Engraving by S. Watts after an after an illustration by Miss Drake from Sydenham Edwards' “” The Botanical Register,” London, Ridgway, 1833, Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / 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
FLO4676721: Costume d'un medecin italian, 14th century - Italian doctor or physician, 14th century - He wears a velvet cap trimmed with fur, a black cape lined in white, scarlet robe, green sleeves, red shoes - He carries a gold box and pincers - From a painting by an unknown artist in the Academy of Fine Arts, Siena - Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from “” Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries,”” Levy Fils, Paris, 1860, Mercuri, Paolo (1804-84) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4676769: Military suit: Victor (Vettore) Pisani (1324-1380), venitian admiral (Italy) - Vettore Pisani, Venetian admiral, 14th century - He wears a red toque, ted tunic buckled up the front, suit of steel plate armour, thighs, greaves, gauntlets, and shoes, edged with gold - His arms include two-handed sword and dagger - From the statue in Venice arsenal - Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from “” Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries,”” Levy Fils, Paris, 1860, Mercuri, Paolo (1804-84) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4676631: Mathilde of Tuscany (ca. 1046-1145), called Countess Mathilde, Mathilde de Briey or Mathilde de Canossa - Matilda of Tuscany, 1046-1115 - She wears a conical hat decorated with gemstones, pink veil, red chlamys edged with gold tied at the left shoulder, blue robe edged with gold on the sleeves She sits on a throne, with cushion and footrest - Illustration taken from a manuscript of Donizo's “” Vita Mathildis -”” Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from “” Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries,”” Levy Fils, Paris, 1860, Mercuri, Paolo (1804-84) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4679068: Variete d'heliconia (so-called floury) - Plate engraved by S.Watts, based on an illustration by Sarah Anne Drake (1803-1857), from the Botanical Register of Sydenham Edwards (1768-1819), England, 1833 - Powdered heliconia, Heliconia farinosa (Heliconia pulverulenta) - Engraving by S. Watts after an illustration by S. Watts after an illustration by Miss Drake from Denham Edwards' “” The Botanical Register,” London, Ridgway, 1833, Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4676237: Military costume of an officer in the court of Frederic III of the Holy Empire (1415-1493) - Military costume of an officer in the court of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, 15th century - He wears a black cap, doublet with slashed sleeves revealing his shirt, breeches, stockings, garters, and carries a cane - From the Titius Livius manuscript in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan - Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from “” Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries,”” Levy Fils, Paris, 1861, Mercuri, Paolo (1804-84) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4678208: Sir John Harsich, 1384. He wears his tilting helmet with turkey-feather crest and cointisse over his bassinet. The wreath below the crest is two pieces of silk in his armorial colours twisted together by a lady. 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
FLO4676850: Suit d'un homme jeif, 14eme century - Jewish man, 14th century - He wears a white hood, yellow cape with gold embroidery, green robe, red belt and shoes - From a painting by Sano di Pietro in the Academy of Fine Arts, Siena - Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from “” Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries,”” Levy Fils, Paris, 1860, Mercuri, Paolo (1804-84) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4675970: Knight of the short-lived Order of the Knot, an order of chivalry founded in 1352 by Louis of Taranto, King of Naples - He wears a brown tabard, steel helm, suit of armour, gauntlets and spurs - The helm edges of the shield are decorated with knots - From a sepulchral stone in the church of Saint Catherine, Pisa - Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from “” Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries,”” Levy Fils, Paris, 1861, Mercuri, Paolo (1804-84) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4676632: Military costume: un soldat en cotes de meshes, 13th century (supposedly representation of Hugues III (1148-1192), Duke of Burgundy) - Military costume, 13th century - He wears a blue casque with yellow bend sinister, full chainmail suit of armour, violet tunic, buckler (shield) and sword - From a contemporary manuscript - According to Massard, this is Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy, 12th century - Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from “” Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries,”” Levy Fils, Paris, 1860, Mercuri, Paolo (1804-84) / 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
FLO4678322: Alexander I King of Scotland - Alexander I, King of Scotland, 1107. Alexander the Fierce, 1078-1124. He wears a helmet, hauberk tunic with hood, rides a horse and carries a lance with pennant and targe shield. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by S.R. Meyrick from Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick's A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4678549: Knight armed for the bond, a joust where the horse's eyes were covered, 1512. Knight in visored salad helmet with ring hooked to the grand guard a la montoniere, breastplate with lance rest and drapery, lance with morne, coronel and pennant. Horse in chamfron and caparison covering the eyes. 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