FLO4674674: Daylily, Hemerocallis fulva (an altro hemerocalle). Handcoloured woodblock print by Wolfgang Meyerpick after an illustration by Giorgio Liberale from Pietro Andrea Mattioli's Discorsi di P.A. Matthioli ne i sei libri della Materia Medicinale di Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo (Commentary on the Materia Medica of Dioscorides), Vincenzo Valgrisi, Venice, 1568., Liberale, Giorgio (1527-1579) (after) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4674697: Jasmine, Jasminum officinale. Handcoloured woodblock print by Wolfgang Meyerpick after an illustration by Giorgio Liberale from Pietro Andrea Mattioli's Discorsi di P.A. Matthioli ne i sei libri della Materia Medicinale di Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo (Commentary on the Materia Medica of Dioscorides), Vincenzo Valgrisi, Venice, 1568., Liberale, Giorgio (1527-1579) (after) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4674774: Rhexia mariana. Native to the United States and Cuba, this plant has purple flowers that contrast with its orange stamens. Endangered species. Illustration by Miss R. Mills (active 1836-1842), in The Botanist, series by Benjamin Maund in five volumes, published between 1836 and 1842. This work is renowned for its finely detailed engravings. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4673935: Geoffrey V, Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, 1113-1151 (Geoffroy V d'Anjou, known as the Bel or Plantagenet). He wears a helmet in the Phrygian style, a long cape over tunics, all embroidered in gold. He holds a sword and large buckler (shield) decorated with heraldic lions. From an effigy on his tomb in Le Mans. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Massard from “” French Costumes from KingClovis to Our Days,”” Massard, Mifliez, Paris, 1834., Massard, Leopold (1812-1889) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4674189: Raymond Pons, Count of Toulouse, died 950 but depicted in 13th century costume. He wears a green corselet or bodice, bizarre bonnet, huge gold sleeves and robe lined with ermine, red stockings. Taken from a manuscript of the 13th century in Toulouse library. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Massard from “” French Costumes from KingClovis to Our Days,”” Massard, Mifliez, Paris, 1834., Massard, Leopold (1812-1889) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4676205: Italian military costume, 15th century - Italian military costume from the 15th century - He wears a steel helmet and cuirassed ornamented with gold, violet scarf, green doublet, pink stockings, and holds a sword - From a painting in the Sistine Chapel from Lucas Signorelli - 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
FLO4676836: Costume d'une jeune femme italian, 14th century - Young Italian woman, 14th century - She wears a large turban and her hair tied with white laces, a gold simar with tight bodice and full skirts and sleeves trimmed with ermine, pointed red shoes - From a painting by Francesco Vanni of 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
FLO4677673: Street entertainer performing on a horn and violin. After removing his huge glasses from his nose, the old geezer blows on his horn (sarbacane) and plays the violin, grimacing all the time.” Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesanger's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4677861: Fashionable dancers performing La Trenis, a country dance section in the popular quadrille created by the French dance master Trenitz. Poor celebrity! The mania for pirouettes made him deranged, and he later died in Charenton asylum, also home to the Marquis de Sade.” Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesanger's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4676115: Costume of a Spanish noble woman, 15th century - Costume of a Spanish noble woman, 15th century - From a manuscript of “” Office of Our Lady”” in the Spanish court - She wears a white embroidered headdress, and a full cape over a dress - 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
FLO4676242: Costume d'un magistrate florentin (Italy), 15th century - Costume of a government magistrate in Florence, 15th century - He wears a scarlet hood, pink cape and yellow tunic, all lined in ermine - From a miniature in a manuscript of Dante in the Vatican - 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
FLO4676324: Male travel costume, 15th century - Male travel costume, 15th century - He wears a grey hood, scarlet doublet edged in black, belt and black purse in leather, breeches and boots - From a painting by an unknown artist in Brera Art Gallery, 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
FLO4652580: Northern stone crab, Lithodes maja 1, and brown crab, Cancer pagurus 2 (Spineuse crab, Cancer spinosus, and ecrevisse a coque uni, Brachyurus laevis). Handcoloured copperplate engraving 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
FLO4649883: Tetragonopterus chalceus (Schomburgk's tetragonopterus, Tetragonopterus schomburgkii). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Schomburg's Fishes of Guiana, part of Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ichthyology, Edinburgh, 1841. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4651011: Temminck's courser, Cursorius temminckii (Senegal courier, Tachydromus senegalensis). 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
FLO4652648: Sea star or starfish with five arms, upper side, Asterias rubens B, another starfish species 1,2, sea star with four arms 3,4, and small sea star 5. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Georg Wolfgang Knorr's Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden der Natuur, Blusse and Son, Nuremberg, 1771. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4652825: European hedgehog, Erinaceus europaeus, and seven-banded armadillo, Dasypus septemcinctus. (epic pork from Zelande, Tatou or armadillo from America.) Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Sebastian Leitner after an illustration from nature by Christian Leinberger from Georg Wolfgang Knorr's Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden der Natuur, Blusse and Son, Nuremberg, 1771. Specimens from a Wunderkammer or Cabinet of Curiosities owned by P.L. Muller. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4652866: Skull of a Buru babirusa, Babyrousa babyrussa. The head of a wild boar-deer from India, Babyroussa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Sebastian Leitner after an illustration by Johann Ludwig Colve from Georg Wolfgang Knorr's Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden der Natuur, Blusse and Son, Nuremberg, 1771. Specimens from a Wunderkammer or Cabinet of Curiosities owned by J.P. Breyn. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4650220: Fiery-tailed awlbill, Avogettula recurvirostris (recurved bill or Swainsonõs hummingbird, Trochilus recurvirostris). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Hummingbirds, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, 1834. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4651567: Virginia deer and reindeer or caribou - 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
FLO4651871: Le sarigue ou opossum et le cayopollin - 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
FLO4651882: Le dasyure de Mauge ou chat marsupial and le chironecte yapock ou sarigue d'eau ou opossum aquatic - Eau forte by Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780-1845), graved 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