FLO5000362: Parts of the south and west walls of the Convent of St. Clare or Minoresses, founded 1293. After the fire of March 23, 1797. Walls of Caen stone and chalk, timber oak and chestnut. Copperplate engraving drawn and etched by John Thomas Smith from his Topography of London, 1812. / Bridgeman Images
FLO5000620: Tudor houses on the corner of Chancery Lane, Fleet Street, 1789. External specimen of the Grotesque Bracketed Front and Projecting Stories of the reign of Edward VI. Demolished 1799. The street characters include the Welsh dwarf Jeremiah Davies, legless Samuel Horsey, King of the Beggars. Copperplate engraving drawn and etched by John Thomas Smith from his Topography of London, 1812. / Bridgeman Images
FLO5000640: Room on the first floor of Sir Paul Pindar's house, Bishopsgate Street, 1810. Wood panel walls, stone chimney piece and plaster ceiling and cornices. Internal specimen of the Tudor Decorated style, latter part of the reign of Elizabeth, 1600. Copperplate engraving drawn and etched by John Thomas Smith from his Topography of London, 1810. / Bridgeman Images
FLO5000695: Stuart Houses from the reign of King Charles I in the Foliated Style on the west side of Little Moorfields, 1810. Oak timber house with plaster foliage. On the street are Thames fishermen carrying oars, buckets, fish and nets begging for assistance during a frost. Copperplate engraving drawn and etched by John Thomas Smith from his Topography of London, 1814. / Bridgeman Images
FLO5000770: Notorious blind beggar in costume of a survivor of the Battle of Waterloo with a portrait of a wounded sailor on his chest, and as a decrepit match seller kneeling in front of the Privy Gardens. Copperplate etching drawn and engraved by John Thomas Smith from his Vagabondiana, Anecdotes of Mendicant Wanderers through the Streets of London, 1817. / Bridgeman Images
FLO5004808: Danube gudgeon, Gobio gobio 156, crucian carp, Carassius carassius 157 and bream, Abramis brama 158. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm's Encyclopedia of Natural History: Fish, Augsburg, 1804. Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian clergy and naturalist known as the German Buffon. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4989157: South African fur seal or Cape fur seal, Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus (Cape otary, Otaria pusilla). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Hamilton's Amphibious Carnivora, part of Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Mammalia, Edinburgh, 1839. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4989163: South American fur seal, Arctocephalus australis (Fur seal, Otaria falklandica). From a specimen in the Royal Edinburgh Museum. Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Hamilton's Amphibious Carnivora, part of Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Mammalia, Edinburgh, 1839. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4989215: Bearded seal, Erignathus barbatus (Hare of the Sea of the Russians, Phoca leporina). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Hamilton's Amphibious Carnivora, part of Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Mammalia, Edinburgh, 1839. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4989326: Johnny and other Midshipmen on shore leave wait a play at Plymouth Playhouse. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by W. Read after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from Alfred Burton's The Adventures of Johnny Newcombe in the Navy, Simpkin, London, 1818., Rowlandson, Thomas (1756-1827) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4989392: Red bird-of-paradise, Paradisaea rubra (near threatened), and Nias Hill myna, Gracula robusta. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croix's “” Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology,”” Paris, France, 1816-1830. Illustration by J. G. Pretre after Jean Baptiste Audebert, engraved by Massard, directed by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and published by F.G. Levrault. Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780 ~ 1845) was painter of natural history at Empress Josephine's zoo and later became artist to the Museum of Natural History. Turpin (1775-1840) is considered one of the greatest English botanical illustrators of the 19th century. / Bridgeman Images