FLO4568194: Valerian red or Valerian gardeners. Coloured copper engraving from a drawing by C. Mathews from William Baxter's book “English Botanical Phenomenes””, 1834. William Baxter (1788-1871) was the curator of the Oxford Botanical Garden from 1813 to 1854. Red valerian, Valeriana rubra. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Charles Mathews of a drawing by W.A. Delamotte from William Baxter's “” British Phaenogamous Botany”” 1834. Scotsman William Baxter (1788-1871) was the curator of the Oxford Botanic Garden from 1813 to 1854. / Bridgeman Images
LRI4567953: Branches of knowledge represented by Aristotle (top left) represents Natural Philosophy, with Seneca representing Moral Philosophy on the right, the Emperor Justinian (top centre). The woman in the centre has a sword and a flowering branch issuing from her mouth (woodcut, 1508), Unknown Artist, (16th century) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4568178: Primevere officinale. Coloured copper engraving from a drawing by C. Mathews from William Baxter's book “English Botanical Phenomenes””, 1834. William Baxter (1788-1871) was the curator of the Oxford Botanical Garden from 1813 to 1854. Common cowslip, Primula veris. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Charles Mathews of a drawing by William Delamotte from William Baxter's “” British Phaenogamous Botany”” 1834. Scotsman William Baxter (1788-1871) was the curator of the Oxford Botanic Garden from 1813 to 1854. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4569301: Pink German centifolia rose, Rosa centifolia germanica, and white unique rose, Rosa unica. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from an illustration drawn from nature by Stark from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1790-1830. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4569109: Modern Athens built from the ruins of ancient Athens, 1800. View from the south-east showing the Temple of Olympian Zeus and its three columns in the foreground, the Arch of Hadrian, and the Acropolis and Parthenon on the hill. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1823. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4569373: Virginia rose, Rosa lucida, and Rosa truncata major. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1790-1830. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4569340: Small Provence rose, Rosa provincialis minima, and Dijon rose, Rosa damascena dijonensis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from an illustration drawn from nature by Stark from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1790-1830. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4569434: Belladonna lily or naked lady, Amaryllis belladonna, native to South Africa. Handcoloured stipple engraving on copper by Barrois from a botanical illustration by Pancrace Bessa from Mordant de Launay's “Herbier General de l'Amateur,” Audot, Paris, 1820. The Herbier was published from 1810 to 1827 and edited by Mordant de Launay and Loiseleur-Deslongchamps. Bessa (1772-1830s), along with Redoute and Turpin, is considered one of the greatest English botanical artists of the 19th century. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4565117: Costume of the incredible, Ange Pitou (1767-1846) (character from the novel by Alexandre Dumas). Coat with long tails, Robespierre waistcoat silk tie, cashmere panties and hat with tricolor cockade. Handcoloured lithograph after a design by Leon Sault from “” L'Art du Travestissement” (The Art of Fancy Dress), Paris, c.1880. Sault was a theatre and opera designer and luxury fashion magazine publisher. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4565837: Doctors, vetus in the fashion of the English Regence (1811-1820), wearing wigs and redingotes, together with a nurse, consult each other in an elegant corridor, decorated with a landscape painting (Bath, England) - Eau forte by Francis Eginton (1737-1805), extracted from Le nouveau guide de Bath or Memoires de la famille Blunderhead, published in 1807 - Regency doctors in wigs and frock coats consult with a nurse in an elegant corridor decorated with landscape painting - Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Francis Eginton from Christopher Anstey's “” The New Bath Guide,”” John Browne, 1807) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4565794: Skeleton of a European robin, Erithacus rubecula (Motacilla rubecula) and common snipe, Gallinago gallinago (Scollopax gallinago) from Dr. Barclay's Museum, Edinburgh. Copperplate engraving by Edward Mitchell after an anatomical illustration by Robert Kaye Greville from John Barclay's A Series of Engravings of the Human Skeleton, MacLachlan and Stewart, Edinburgh, 1824. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4565995: Barberry spines. Coloured copper engraving from a drawing by Isaac Russell from William Baxter's book “English Botanical Phenomenes””, 1834. William Baxter (1788-1871) was the curator of the Oxford Botanical Garden from 1813 to 1854. Common barberry, Berberis vulgaris. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Charles Mathews of a drawing by Isaac Russell from William Baxter's “” British Phaenogamous Botany”” 1834. Scotsman William Baxter (1788-1871) was the curator of the Oxford Botanic Garden from 1813 to 1854. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4566009: Perennial peas. Coloured copper engraving from a drawing by C. Mathews from William Baxter's book “English Botanical Phenomenes””, 1834. William Baxter (1788-1871) was the curator of the Oxford Botanical Garden from 1813 to 1854. Everlasting pea, Lathyrus latifolius. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Charles Mathews from William Baxter's “” British Phaenogamous Botany”” 1834. Scotsman William Baxter (1788-1871) was the curator of the Oxford Botanic Garden from 1813 to 1854. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4563329: Black salsify, Scorzonera hispanica 1, mountain houseleek, Sempervivum montanum 2, snakeroot, Sagittaria sagittifolia 3, cornflower, Centaurea cyanus 4, Judas tree, Cercis siliquastrum 5, African iris species 6-8. (Sedum, Sesamoides, Scorzonera, Serpentaria, Siligua seu Arbor Judae, Sisyrinchium) Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Mario Cammerari from Professor Filippo Arena's La natura e cultura dei fiori fisicamente esposta (The nature and culture of flowers physically displayed), Palermo, Italy, 1771. / Bridgeman Images