FLO4669064: Field bur, Tribulus sylvestris, and safflower. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrations only, with captions in Latin, Greek, French, Italian, German, and in English manuscript. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4670840: Large tortoiseshell, Nymphalis polychloros, small tortoiseshell, Aglais urticae, and comma butterfly, Polygonia c-album. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis Nicolas Noel from Hippolyte Lucas' Natural History of European Butterflies, Histoire Naturelle des Lepidopteres d'Europe, 1864. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4670868: Lofty bath white, Pontia callidice, brimstone, Gonepteryx rhamni, and bath white, Pontia daplidice. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis Nicolas Noel from Hippolyte Lucas' Natural History of European Butterflies, Histoire Naturelle des Lepidopteres d'Europe, 1864. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4671324: Coliole (Coleus) variete tryoni by M.Guildford (gardener in Leicester, United Kingdom), variete whose particularity is its foliage the tip up to half of the leaf is golden yellow the other half is crimson red ring yellow. Lithograph by Worthington G.Smith (1835-1917), published in Floral Magazine, 1872, edited by Henry Honywood Dombrain (1818-1905). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4669993: Netted-leaved oxylobium, Oxylobium retusum, broad-leaved brachysema, Brachysema latifolium, heart-leaved euchilus, Euchilus obcordatus, small-leaved dillwynia, Dillwynia parvifolia, sharp-leaved eutaxia, Eutaxia pungens, and prickly hovea, Hovea pungens. Handfinished chromolithograph by Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs. Jane Loudon's Ladies Flower Garden or Ornamental Greenhouse Plants, William S. Orr, London, 1849. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4670057: Small-spiked callistemon, Callistemon microstachyum, heart-leaved angophora, Angophora cordifolia, and showy metrosideros, Metrosideros speciosa. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs. Jane Loudon's Ladies Flower Garden or Ornamental Greenhouse Plants. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4670904: Two-tailed pasha or foxy emperor, Charaxes jasius, dorsal and ventral views. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis Nicolas Noel from Hippolyte Lucas' Natural History of European Butterflies, Histoire Naturelle des Lepidopteres d'Europe, 1864. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4678472: Sir John Cornwall, First Baron Fanhope and Milbroke, English nobleman and soldier, 1364-1442. He wears a suit of plate armour, armorial tabard with a gold-crowned red lion on ermine field. Cornwall holds the banner and stands on the shield of a English knight he defeated in a joust in 1400. His squire wears a visored capelline or steel hat. From a stained glass window in Ampthill Church, Bedfordshire. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by S.R. Meyrick from Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick's A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4678481: King Henry VII of England and a billman, 1490. Henry VII's engraved suit of armour in the Tower of London, with convex breastplate, puckered plate skirt of lamboys, square sollerets and plumed capquetel helmet. Horse in barding, chamfron, manefaire, poitral and croupiere. Billman in jazerine jacket and salad helmet. 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
FLO4678763: Boisduvalia variete, dense-flowered epilobe - Engraved board by S.Watts, from an illustration by Sarah Anne Drake (1803-1857), from the Botanical Register of Sydenham Edwards (1768-1819), England, 1833 - Denseflower willowherb, Boisduvalia densiflora (Close-flowered evening primrose, Oenothera densiflora) - Engraving by S. Watts after an illustration by Miss Drake from Sydenham Edwards' “” The Botanical Register,”” London, Ridgway, 1833, Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4678946: Orchid: variety of gongora, native to South America - 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 - Spotted gongora orchid, Gongora maculata - Engraving by S. Watts after an illustration by Miss Drake from Sydenhake from Sydenhake Am Edwards' “” The Botanical Register,” London, Ridgway, 1833, Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4679110: Orchid: calanth variety, with yellow flowers - 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 - Clustered calanthe orchid, Calanthe densiflora - Engraving by S. Watts after an illustration by Miss Drake from Sydenham Edwards' “” The Botanical Register,”” London, Ridgway, 1833, Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4681744: Common brimstone butterfly, Gonepteryx rhamni, caterpillar and pupa (Buckthorn butterfly, Papilio rhamni). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, London, 1806. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4679713: Roman mythology: Ceres, goddess of agriculture, harvests and fertility, holding a sickle and a bushel of wheat - Eau forte by Jacques Louis Constant Lacerf, based on an illustration by Leonard Defrance (1735-1805), extracted from mythology in fabulous prints or divine figures, circa 1820 - Ceres, Roman goddess of the harvest and agriculture, in toga and laurel crown, with scythe and bushel of wheat - Handcoloured copperplate engraving engraved by Jacques Louis Constant Lacerf after illustrations by Leonard Defrance from “” Mythology in Prints or Figures of Fabled Gods””, Chez P. Blanchard, Paris, c 1820 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4680069: Roman mythology: Abundance, allegorical divinite, holding a fruit horn - Eau forte by Jacques Louis Constant Lacerf, after an illustration by Leonard Defrance (1735-1805), extracted from mythology in fabulous prints or divine figures, circa 1820 - Abundantia, Roman goddess of abundance shown with cornucopia and garland - Handcoloured copperplate engraving engraved by Jacques Louis Constant Lacerf after illustrations by Leonard Defrance from “” Mythology in Prints or Figures of Fabled Gods””, Chez P. Blanchard, Paris, c 1820 / Bridgeman Images