ZUM4899515: Apr. 04, 1973 - Project To Save The Philae Temples at Aswan (Upper Egypt): UNESCO Director General Rene Maheu (1905-1975) - meeting the executive committee concerning the obstacles and difficulties facing the project and request expediency in the work to recover past delay / Bridgeman Images
FLO4576925: Main plaza or Zocalo in Mexico City, circa 1800 (Zocalo or Constitution Square, in Mexico around 1800, with the equestrian statue of King Charles VI of Spain, the porphyry square and the vice king's palace, the cathedral and the construction site without the Moorish style). With equestrian statue of King Charles VI of Spain, gated square paved with porphyry stones, vice-roy's palace 1, cathedral 2 and part under construction in the Moorish style 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4576972: Russian hunting horn band. Formed by the Bohemian chamber musician J.A. Maresch for Prince Kilirovich Narishkin in 1750. It comprised 40 musicians each playing a single tone in a D major chord according to a simple rhythmic notation. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4578083: Wachendorfia (red root) has large yellow and orange flower at tip. Tall flowering wachendorfia with yellow and orange spiked flowers. A native of South Africa. Wachendorfia thyrsiflora. Handcolored copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis's “” Botanical Magazine”” 1790-1800., Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4578128: American pancratium has fragrant white flowers. American pancratium with white fragrant flowers.Pancratium rotatum.Handcolored copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis's “” Botanical Magazine”” 1790-1800., Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4578175: Veltheimia has glaucus leaf, a beautiful lily (lily) from the Cape of Good Esperance (South Africa). Glaucous leaved veltheimia, a beautiful lily from the Cape of Good Hope. Veltheimia glauca. Handcolored copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis's “” Botanical Magazine”” 1790-1805., Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4577830: Dyeers: one quenches the fabric in a red dye tank, others pump water to fill the rinse tank - Dyer dying bolts of fabric in a barrel, while other workers pump water in a large vat to rinse cloth. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4577897: Spring Omphalodes or Printaniere Little Borage - Creeping navelwort, Omphalodes verna (blue navelwort, Cynoglossum omphalodes). Handcolured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Curtis' The Botanical Magazine, Lambeth Marsh, London, 1786., Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4578092: Large bright yellow savannah flower, native to Jamaican and Santo Domingo. Larger savanna flower with vivid yellow flower, a native of the savannas of Jamaica and St. Domingo. Echites suberecta.Handcolored copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis's “” Botanical Magazine”” 1790-1800., Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4578141: Blue and white linen, with pale blue flowers, native to Europe. Blue and white flax with pale blue flowers. A native of Europe. Linum ascyrifolium. Handcolored copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis's “” Botanical Magazine”” 1790-1800., Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4578507: Climbing milkvine, Matelea obliqua (Virginian cynanchum, Cynanchum discolor). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Sansom Jr. after an illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis' Botanical Magazine, T. Curtis, London, 1810., Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images