MME4719142: Rome, 1961 Secretary of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) Palmiro Togliatti receiving some flowers during a meeting/Roma, 1961 Il segretario del partito comunista italiano (PCI) Palmiro Togliatti mentre riceve un mazzo di fiori durante un covegno - Marcello Mencarini Historical Archives, Mencarini, Marcello / Bridgeman Images
MME4719303: Rome, 30-09-1956 Festa dell'Unit¿ (Festival of Unity) One of the annual open-air meetings for PCI militants organized by the Italian Communist Party (PCI) to finance his newspaper “” L'Unit¿””/Roma, 30-09-1956 Festa del'Uno dei festival annuali organizzati dal partito comunista italiano (PCI) per finanziare il quotidiano “” Suo organo ufficiale - Marcello Mencarini Historical Archives, Mencarini, Marcello / Bridgeman Images
FLO4687953: Apple Harvey doree (apple variety). Lithograph after the illustration of Augusta Withers (1793-1877), published in the “Pomology Magazine” (1828-1830) by John Lindley (1795-1865). Golden Harvey apple, Malus domestica. Illustration by Mrs. Withers. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by S. Watts from J. Lindley's “” Pomological Magazine,” London, 1828-1930. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4688078: House of Marcus Lucretius, Reg IX, Ins 3, 5, 24, Pompeii. View of the courtyard with impluvium, tablinum with mosaic floor, and garden with statues of satyrs and cupids. Chromolithograph and illustration by G. Autoriello from Antonio Niccoliniõs Pompeii: Views and Restorations (Pompeii: Essaies et Restorations), published by Autoriello & De Luca, Naples, 1898. Antonio was grandson of the architect Antonio Niccolini Sr. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4688492: Native man of Anaiteum island (Aneityum, Vanuatu). He wears his long hair tied with shells, and a cloak. Taken from Captain J.E. Erskine's “Journal of a Cruise,” 1853. Handcoloured lithograph by J. Bull from James Cowles Prichard's Natural History of Man, Balliere, London, 1855. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4691390: Two ladies dressing before a mirror in a parlor, 19th century. She says, The pink really suits you dear. She thinks, And makes you look 10 years older. Handcoloured lithograph by the Gihaut brothers after an illustration by Swiss artist Jean Gabriel Scheffer from Petites Scenes du Monde, Ce que que on dit et ce que que on think, Gihaut Freres, Paris, 1829. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4691629: Sumatran orangutan, Pongo abelii. Critically endangered. Simia satyrus Linn. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Nussbiegel after an illustration by R. Oakes from Johann Christian Daniel Schreber's Animal Illustrations after Nature, or Schreber's Fantastic Animals, Erlangen, Germany, 1775. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4691708: White-handed or lar gibbon, Hylobates lar. Endangered. Simia longimana. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Nussbiegel after an illustration by Jacques de Seve from Johann Christian Daniel Schreber's Animal Illustrations after Nature, or Schreber's Fantastic Animals, Erlangen, Germany, 1775. / Bridgeman Images
MME4719565: Rome, about 1960 Italian politicians members of the Christian Democracy Party Amintore Fanfani and Aldo Moro talking between them/Roma, 1960 circa I politici democristiano Amintore Fanfani e Aldo Moro mentre parlano tra loro - Marcello Mencarini Historical Archives, Mencarini, Marcello / Bridgeman Images
FLO4688891: Cabbage rose, Rosa centifolia, from Robert Tyas' “Queen of Flowers, or Memoirs of the Rose,” London, 1840. Unsigned handcoloured lithograph, but probably by James Andrews. Little is known about the artist James Andrews (1801 ~ 1876) apart from his work. This gifted artist taught flower-painting to young ladies and published a treatise “” Lessons in Flower Painting”” in 1835. Blunt calls him “” an illustrator of sentimental flower books,””” but admits that he was “” very talented.”” His signature JA can be found in many botanical gift books for publisher Robert Tyas from “” The Sentiment of Flowers”” (1836) to “” Flowers from Foreign Lands”” (1853). / Bridgeman Images