FLO4612357: Yellowhammer, Emberiza citrinella. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his own “Natural History of British Birds,” London, 1794-1819. Edward Donovan (1768-1837) was an Anglo-Irish amateur zoologist, writer, artist and engraver. He wrote and illustrated a series of volumes on birds, fish, shells and insects, opened his own museum of natural history in London, but later he fell on hard times and died penniless., Donovan, Edward (1768-1837) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4612407: Mallard ducks, Anas platyrhynchos, male and female pair. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his own “Natural History of British Birds,” London, 1794-1819. Edward Donovan (1768-1837) was an Anglo-Irish amateur zoologist, writer, artist and engraver. He wrote and illustrated a series of volumes on birds, fish, shells and insects, opened his own museum of natural history in London, but later he fell on hard times and died penniless., Donovan, Edward (1768-1837) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4612538: Common quail, Coturnix coturnix. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his own “Natural History of British Birds” (1794-1819). Edward Donovan (1768-1837) was an Anglo-Irish amateur zoologist, writer, artist and engraver. He wrote and illustrated a series of volumes on birds, fish, shells and insects, opened his own museum of natural history in London, but later he fell on hard times and died penniless., Donovan, Edward (1768-1837) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4612616: Blackcap, Sylvia atricapilla. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his own “Natural History of British Birds,” London, 1794-1819. Edward Donovan (1768-1837) was an Anglo-Irish amateur zoologist, writer, artist and engraver. He wrote and illustrated a series of volumes on birds, fish, shells and insects, opened his own museum of natural history in London, but later he fell on hard times and died penniless., Donovan, Edward (1768-1837) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4612651: Dunlin, Calidris alpina. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his own “Natural History of British Birds,” London, 1794-1819. Edward Donovan (1768-1837) was an Anglo-Irish amateur zoologist, writer, artist and engraver. He wrote and illustrated a series of volumes on birds, fish, shells and insects, opened his own museum of natural history in London, but later he fell on hard times and died penniless., Donovan, Edward (1768-1837) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4612708: Common grey linnet, Carduelis cannabina. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his own “Natural History of British Birds,” London, 1794-1819. Edward Donovan (1768-1837) was an Anglo-Irish amateur zoologist, writer, artist and engraver. He wrote and illustrated a series of volumes on birds, fish, shells and insects, opened his own museum of natural history in London, but later he fell on hard times and died penniless., Donovan, Edward (1768-1837) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4622256: Portraits of Chinese emperors and famous men including ruler god Fo-hi 1, philosopher Confucius 2, the bookburner Qin Shi Huang 3, the writer Fo-chen 4, empress Wu Zetian 5 and emperor Taizong, founder of the Tang dynasty 6. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, 1843. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4622389: Church of Notre Dame du Val de Grace in Paris. The church is the fruit of the wish of Queen Anne of Austria to raise a beautiful temple to God if he sent her a son. After twenty-three years of marriage, in 1638, the future Louis XIV was born, who laid the first stone on 1 April 1645 and the construction ended at the end of the 1660s with sculptural and pictorial decoration. The works were first entrusted to Mansart, to which Le Mercier was succeeded, having worked notably at the Hotel de St Aignan and the Bibliotheque of Mazarin, and then Le Muet, who attended Le Duc. In 1649, the disturbances of the Fronde led to a long interruption of work, which did not resume until 1655. Photography 10/08/98. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4604532: Copalm of America or Liquidambar - Storax or liquid amber, Liquidambar styraciflua. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret and Chamberet's “” La Flore Medicale,”” Paris, Panckoucke, 1830., Turpin, Pierre Jean Francois (1775-1840) / Bridgeman Images
TEC4604906: Pont Neuf, Paris. The oldest bridge in Paris. Henry III laid the first stone in 1578. Interrupted between 1588 and 1599 by civil wars, it was not inaugurated until 1607 by Henri IV. (Architect Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, realisation 1578-1604). In 1854 candelabres were installed by Victor Balard. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4604934: Fruit of the baobab, with sections of the fruit and the seed - Engraving by Lambert fils, after a drawing by Pierre Jean Francois Turpin (1775-1840), extracted from La flore medicale, de Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet, Paris 1830 - African baobab tree, Adansonia digitata, showing fruit - Engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by P - J - F Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet's “” La Flore Medicale,” Paris, Panckoucke, 1830 - / Bridgeman Images
FLO4605111: Bryone blanche - Engraving by Lambert fils, after a drawing by Pierre Jean Francois Turpin (1775-1840), from La flore medicale, by Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet, Paris 1830 - White bryony, Bryonia alba, with leaf, tendril, flower, berry and root - Engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by P - J - F - Turpin from Meton, Poiret and Chamberet's “” The Flora Medicale,” Paris, Panckoucke, 1830 - / Bridgeman Images
FLO4605190: Aigremoine - Engraving by Lambert after a drawing by Pierre Jean Francois Turpin (1775-1840), from La flore medicale, by Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet, Paris 1830 - Common agrimony, Agrimonia eupatoria - Engraving by Lambert from a drawing by PJ - F - Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret and Chamberet's La Flora Medicale,” Paris, Panckoucke, 1830 - / Bridgeman Images
FLO4605289: Elau, a Papua-Malay girl from the cannibal island of Tikiene, and a man of Malakula, Vanuatu (Malicolo). Polynesians with elevated foreheads. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from his Natural History of the Human Species. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4605323: Bout Alikhooki, Tierra del Fuego man drawn from life in European clothes at Plymouth, and Patagonian of Cape Gregory in llama fur coat. Natives of South America. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from his Natural History of the Human Species, Edinburgh, W. H. Lizars, 1848 / Bridgeman Images