FLO4653293: Suzumushisou or liparis orchid, Liparis makinoana. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1900. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4653310: Shiro kirishima tsutsuji or white kurume azalea, Rhododendron obtusum. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1900. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4653654: Daidai or bitter orange flower, Citrus aurantium. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1889. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4653860: Yanagiran or fireweed, Chamerion angustifolium Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1900. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4653384: Asaza or fringed waterlily, Nymphoides peltata. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1900. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4653536: Shironochi damakisou or white columbine, Aquilegia species (ancolia). Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1889. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4653598: Sagariyuri or bamboo lily, Lilium japonicum Thunb. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1889. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4653713: Baran or cast-iron plant, Aspidistra elatior. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1889. / Bridgeman Images

JLJ4653567: Portrait of the Old, 1485 (oil on canvas), Lippi, Filippino (c.1457-1504) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4653931: Amigasayuri or Thunberg fritillary, Fritillaria thunbergii. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1889. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4653987: Kagamigusa or Japanese peppervine, Ampelopsis japonica. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1900. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4654214: Roubai, nankinume or Japanese allspice, Chimonanthus praecox (Chimonanthe precoce) Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1900. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4654192: Muresuzume or Chinese caragana, Caragana sinica (Caraganier of Siberia). Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4654359: Sharinbai, Yeddo hawthorn, Rhaphiolepis umbellata. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4654144: Sazanka or Christmas camellia, Camellia sasanqua (Christmas camelia). Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1900. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4650162: Horned sungem, Heliactin bilophus, female (Double-crested hummingbird, Trochilus cornutus). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Hummingbirds, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, 1834. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4650467: Moor macaque, Macaca maura (Macacus maimon brachyurus). White maimon, believed to be an albino juvenile. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from William Jardine's Naturalist's Library, Edinburgh, 1843. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4650410: Crimson topaz varied with white, Topaza pella (Trochilus pella). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Hummingbirds Volume 2, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, 1833. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4650538: Northern ghost bat or white box-tailed bat, Diclidurus albus, and spectral bat or false vampire bat, Vampyrus spectrum. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from William Jardine's Naturalist's Library, Edinburgh, 1843. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4650821: Brown-throated watt-eye, Platysteira cyanea (Show tody, Platystera lobata). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by William Swainson from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Flycatchers, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, 1836. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4650855: Robin flycatcher, Muscicapa rubecola. Known only from a specimen in the Paris Museum. Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by William Swainson from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Flycatchers, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, 1836. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4650901: Woodland kingfisher, Halcyon senegalensis (Rufous-vented kingfisher, Halcyon rufiventer). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Birds of Western Africa, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, 1837. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4651116: Portrait of Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), collector of curiosite firms. Copper engraving by William Lizars, published in the Naturalist Bibliotheque: mammals, pachyderms and quadrupedes with fine skin, edited by W. H. Lizars, Edinburgh (Scotland), 1836. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4651897: The badger or tesson or taisson and the civet or cat musque - Eau forte by Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780-1845), engraved by Carnonkel, for the dictionary of natural sciences: mammals by Frederic Cuvier, edited by Pierre Jean Francois Turpin (1775-1840), published by F.G.Levrault, in Paris, 1816 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4651494: Wild boar and barbiroussa - Eau forte by Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780-1845), engraved by Carnonkel, for the dictionary of natural sciences: mammals by Frederic Cuvier, edited by Pierre Jean Francois Turpin (1775-1840), published by F.G.Levrault, a Paris, 1816 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4652193: Muller's parakeet, Tanygnathus sumatranus. Engraving partially colored, bright red of a head and plumage of a stomach are absent. Psittacus cyano-pygius (male). Lithograph of Joseph Kidd, based on a drawing by John Audubon, in Miscellany of Natural History: Parrots, Sir Thomas DiK Lauder and Captain Thomas Brown, published in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1833. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4652459: Varieties of minerals and resins including mercury, cinnabar, cobalt, sandarac. Handcoloured copperplate engraved and drawn by Georg Wolfgang Knorr from his Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden der Natuur, Blusse and Son, Nuremberg, 1771. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4652497: Chambered or great nautilus shell, Nautilus pompilius (Nautilus crassus) 1 and polished shell below 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by G.W. Knorr after an illustration by Barbara Regina Dietzsch from Georg Wolfgang Knorr's Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden der Natuur, Blusse and Son, Nuremberg, 1771. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4652540: Various mollusc shells: Chiragra spider conch, Harpago chiragra 1, scallops, Pecten species 2-5, whelk, Buccinum undatum 6, Lagena species 7, sea snail, Rapa rapa 8, de ajuinschil shell 9. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Georg Wolfgang Knorr from his Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden der Natuur, Blusse and Son, Nuremberg, 1771. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4652663: Spot-fin porcupinefish, Diodon hystrix, and pufferfish, Lagocephalus lagocephalus. Ostracion, Hystrix, ungunfish, Orbis inermis, Orbis mammillaris. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Georg Wolfgang Knorr from his Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden der Natuur, Blusse and Son, Nuremberg, 1771. Specimens from a Wunderkammer or Cabinet of Curiosities owned by Dr. Christoph Jacob Trew in Nuremberg. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4653142: Katakuri lily, Erythronium japonicum. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1900. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4653360: Choujisou or Japanese bluestar, Amsonia elliptica, and kouraigiboushi or plantain lily, Hosta montana. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1900. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4653409: Sagisou or white egret flower, Pecteilis radiata. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1900. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4653401: Kinshibai or St. John's wort, Hypericum erectum (St. John's wort, devil's hunter, fee grass, grass with a thousand virtues, grass of St. Eloi, grass of St. John's) Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1889. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4653624: Kahahone or Japanese water lily, Nuphar japonica. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1889. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4653751: Matsurika or Arabian jasmine, Jasminum sambac (Arabic jasmine). Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1889. / Bridgeman Images