FLO4612769: Black chin grebe, Podiceps hebridicus. (Little grebe, Tachybaptus ruficollis?) 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
FLO4612900: Common swift, Apus apus. 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
FLO4613086: Bufflehead, Bucephala albeola. 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
FLO4613092: Wild swan (immature), Cygnus cygnus, with plumage in transition stage to white. 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
FLO4613181: Great auk, Pinguinus impennis, hunted to extinction by egg collectors in 1844. 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
FLO4613224: Common stilt, Himantopus himantopus. 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
LRI4622728: Portrait of Margaret of Lorraine (1613-1662), Duchess of Orleans and Alencon Painting of Antoine (Antoon or Anton) Van Dyck (1599-1641), 1634-1635 Dim. 203x115 cm Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi (Offices) - Portrait of Marguerite of Lorraine (1613-1662), Duchess of Orleans Alencon. painting by Anton Van Dyck (1599-1641), 1634-1635, 203-115 cm. Uffizi Gallery, Florence Italy, Dyck, Anthony van (1599-1641) / Bridgeman Images
LBY4622905: La Grande Mosquee de Paris, 2 bis place de l'Ermite, Paris 5th. Construction 1922-1926, architects Robert Fournez, Charles Heubes and Maurice Mantout. In a Moorish Hispano style, with predominance of Maghreb influences for interior decoration and emerald tiles reminiscent of the Alhambra (Spain). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4605373: Portrait of Montezuma II (Moctezumaii, 1466-1520), Aztec Emperor of Mexico, in gold crown and gorgette, and of David Cusick (c.1780-c.1831), a Tuscarora Baptist preacher and author, in western clothes. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from his Natural History of the Human Species. / Bridgeman Images