FLO4670351: Large-leaved lupine, Lupinus macrophyllus, channel-leaved lupine, L. canaliculatus, tree lupine, L. arboreus, Nootka Sound lupine, L. nootkatensis, partil-coloured lupine, L. versicolor, and arid lupine, Lupinus aridus. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs. Jane Loudon's Ladies Flower Garden of Ornamental Perennials, William S. Orr, London, 1849. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4670587: Large-flowered campanula, Campanula macrantha, milk-flowered campanula, C. lactiflora, showy bellflower, C. speciosa, dark-coloured campanula, C. pulla, hill campanula, C. collina, and Ukraine campanula, C. ucranica. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs. Jane Loudon's Ladies Flower Garden of Ornamental Perennials, William S. Orr, London, 1849. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4670802: Artist's view of a boreale aurora - Artist's view of a boreal aurora / Bridgeman Images

FLO4670840: Large tortoiseshell, Nymphalis polychloros, small tortoiseshell, Aglais urticae, and comma butterfly, Polygonia c-album. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis Nicolas Noel from Hippolyte Lucas' Natural History of European Butterflies, Histoire Naturelle des Lepidopteres d'Europe, 1864. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4670868: Lofty bath white, Pontia callidice, brimstone, Gonepteryx rhamni, and bath white, Pontia daplidice. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis Nicolas Noel from Hippolyte Lucas' Natural History of European Butterflies, Histoire Naturelle des Lepidopteres d'Europe, 1864. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4636379: Portraits of a Maori couple from New Zealand. Lithography for the book: “” Galerie complete en tableaux fideles des peuples d'Amérique et d'Australie”” by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche (1785-1863), Meissen edition (Germany), 1835-1840. Native Maori men of New Zealand. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's “” Vollstaendige Voelkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen”” (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4636587: Edmund Elys or Ellis, English clergy, poet and writer, 1633-1708. Copperplate engraving after W. Faithorne, from William Richardson's Portraits Illustrating Granger's Biographical History of England, London, 1792-1812. James Granger (1723-1776) was an English clergy, biographer, and print collector. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4636690: John Lamotte, alderman of London, 1577-1655. Copperplate engraving from William Richard's Portraits illustrating Granger's Biographical History of England, London, 1792-1812. James Granger (1723-1776) was an English clergy, biographer, and print collector. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637025: Thrush drains. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Misseltoe thrush, Mistle thrush, Turdus viscivorus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637177: Eyster pie. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Foot oystercatcher, Haematopus ostralegus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637220: Duck tadorne from Belon. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Shelduck, Anas tadorna, Tadorna tadorna. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637303: Montagu busard. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Ash coloured falcon, Falco cineraceus, Montague's harrier, Circus cineraceus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637336: The epeiche or the spike varies. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Greater spotted woodpecker, Picus major, Great spotted woodpecker, Dendrocopos major. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. / Bridgeman Images

LRI4637400: The Coot Hunt of Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (or Ferdinand IV of Naples) (1751-1825) on Lake Fusaro near Naples, Italy (Ferdinand IV hunting Coot on Lake Fusaro) Detail - Painting by Jacob Philipp Hackert dit Hackert d'Italie (1737-1807) 1783 Dim 146x227 cm Naples Museo Ionale di Capodimonte, Hackert, Jacob-Philippe (1737-1807) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637187: Coot macrolls. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Common coot, Fulica atra. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. Drawn by William Samuel Howitt, a sporting and natural history artist. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637332: Cassenoix fly. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Spotted nutcracker, Nucifraga caryocatactes. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637374: Redtail with white forehead. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Redstart, Motacilla Phoenicurus, Phoenicurus phoenicurus on a honeysuckle branch, Lonicera periclymenum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637485: The immortal, the flower stands under a crown, around roses, poppies and tulips lie crashed under a fake broken - Eau forte by Charles Geoffroy (1819-1882), after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard dit J.J.Granville (1803-1847), for Les fleurs animees, 1847 - Emblematic illustration of the everlasting flower, Helichrysum stoechas - Handcoloured steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from “” Les Fleurs Animees,”” 1847 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637044: The beak crosses parrot. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Bulfinch, Eurasian bullfinch, Loxia pyrrhula, Pyrrhula pyrrhula. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637067: Field lark. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Skylark, Alauda arvensis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637161: Curlew ash. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Curlew, Scolopax arquata, Numenius arquata. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637221: Elegant avocette. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Foot avocet, Recurvirostra avocetta. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637243: The royal eagle. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Golden eagle, Falco chryseatos, Aquila chryseatos. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637285: Horned hawk, male. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Kestrel, Falco tinnunculus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637289: Reed busard. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Moor buzzard, Falco aeruginosus, marsh harrier, Circus aeruginosus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637309: Ant torcol. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Wryneck, Jynx torquilla. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637505: La fee de la cigue crushes a cigue in a mortar with its pestle, while a rabbit in a gown drinks poison near a dead frog - Eau forte by Charles Geoffroy (1819-1882), based on an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard dit J.J.J.Granville (1803-1847), for Les fleurs animees, 1847 - Hemlock flower fairy, Conium maculatum - Handcoloured steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from “” Les Fleurs Animees,”” 1847 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637567: The poppy fee sprinkles opium pods on coleopteres and locusts drugs - Eau forte by Charles Geoffroy (1819-1882), based on an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard dit J.J.Granville (1803-1847), for Les fleurs animees, 1847 - Opium poppy flower fairy, Papaver somniferum - Handcoloured steel engraving by C. Kings after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from “” Les Fleurs Animees,”” 1847 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637774: The return of the fees of the flowers, a procession of fees approached the royal fee, assisted by putti with the wings of dragonfly and butterfly, in the foreground, a coleoptere holds a watering can and on a carpet are placed a secator and a rake - Eau forte by Charles Geoffroy (1819-1882), following an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard dit J.J.J.J.Granville (1803- 1847), for Les fleurs animees, 1847 - The return of the flower fairies - Handcoloured steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from “” Les Fleurs Animees”””, 1847 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637814: The fee narcissus kneels on the edge of a lake, looking at its reflection, observed by a dragonfly and a lezard - Eau forte by Charles Geoffroy (1819-1882), from an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard dit J.J.Granville (1803-1847), for Les fleurs animees, 1847 - Narcissus flower fairy kneeling at the water's edge staring at her reflection - Handcoloured steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from “” Les Fleurs Animees”””, 1847 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4637896: Lactee - Panorama - Lactee - Panorama - Photographic mosaic reconstructing the entire lactee path visible in the north hemisphere, on the left, and from the south hemisphere, on the right / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637940: The flower fees, that of the olive, sleeping in a cotton cap, the night beauty, the immortelle with a crown and a snake aureole, the myrtle in an old man, the tobacco smoking the cigar and the laurel in an old musketeer - Eau forte by Charles Geoffroy (1819-1882), following an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard dit J.J.J.J.Granville (3-1847), for Les fleurs animees, 1847 - Flower fairies of tobacco, everlasting, olive, marvel of Peru, laurel and myrtle - Handcoloured steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from “” Les Fleurs Animees””, 1847 / Bridgeman Images

LRI4637912: Burial arch of Bartolomeo da Saliceto: students attending a course (Sculpture, 1412), Ferrucci, Andrea di Piero (1465-1526) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637926: Buttercup in art nouveau patterns for wallpapers and a vase, 1897 (lithograph), Grasset, Eugene (1841-1917) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637931: Wild rose botanical study, 1897 (lithograph), Grasset, Eugene (1841-1917) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637998: Peruvian bark tree or quinine tree, Cinchona officinalis. Handcoloured lithograph by Henry Sowerby from Edward Hamilton's Flora Homeopathica, Bailliere, London, 1852. / Bridgeman Images