FLO4688582: The Mint, Sha-ko-ka, a Mandan or Numakiki girl. A very pretty and modest girl, 12 years of age, with grey hair peculiar to the Mandan nation. Handcoloured lithograph after a painting by George Catlin from James Cowles Prichard's Natural History of Man, Balliere, London, 1855. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4688590: Hunters of San Francisco Bay, 19th century. Both wear topknots and earrings, one in a loincloth preparing to fire an arrow, the other with arrows in a quiver made from an animal skin. After Louis Choris' “” Cholovonis a la chasse”” from “” Picturesque Journey Around the World,”” 1822. Handcoloured lithograph from James Cowles Prichard's Natural History of Man, Balliere, London, 1855. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4688662: Chelsea Pensioner and Greenwich Pensioner. Army veteran in the redcoat uniform of the Chelsea Hospital holding a pipe, and Navy veteran in the blue uniform of Greenwich Hospital with pegleg holding a tankard. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from William Henry Pyne's The World in Miniature: England, Scotland and Ireland, Ackermann, 1827. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4688892: Yellow bramble rose, Rosa lutea, 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
FLO4688896: Double white rose, Rosa alba, 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
FLO4692066: Pale-throated three-toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus Linn. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Sebastian Leitner after an illustration by George Edwards from Johann Christian Daniel Schreber's Animal Illustrations after Nature, or Schreber's Fantastic Animals, Erlangen, Germany, 1775. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4691757: Mongoose lemur, Mongolian Eulemur. Critically endangered. Mongolian Lemur Linn. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Valentin Bischoff 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
FLO4691862: Large flying fox, Pteropus vampyrus. Near threatened. Vespertilio vampyrus Linn. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Sebastian Leitner 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
FLO4691889: Greater speech-nosed bat, Phyllostomus hastatus. Javelin beats, Vespertilio haftatus Linn. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Sebastian Leitner 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
FLO4692050: Greater horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum. Vespertilio ferrum equinum Buff. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Nussbiegel after an illustration by Jacques Buvee l'Ameriquain from Johann Christian Daniel Schreber's Animal Illustrations after Nature, or Schreber's Fantastic Animals, Erlangen, Germany, 1775. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4690715: Japanese oiran and samurai. Japanese courtesan in kimono with fan and hair ornaments, and two Japanese samurai in chonmage hairstyle wearing montsuki over hakama with two swords (katana) in their belts. (Titled Chinese in error.) Lithograph by Karl Joseph Brodtmann from Heinrich Rudolf Schinz's Illustrated Natural History of Men and Animals, 1836., Brodtmann, Karl Joseph (1787-1862) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4690754: Australian aborigines of the Malay race. Mour-Re-Mour-Ga, man in turban, Y-Erran-Gou-La-Ga, man with face painting, and Ou-Re-Kine, woman in bandana (after Nicolas-Martin Petite). Lithograph by Karl Joseph Brodtmann from Heinrich Rudolf Schinz's Illustrated Natural History of Men and Animals, 1836., Brodtmann, Karl Joseph (1787-1862) / Bridgeman Images