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
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
FLO4637493: La fee des carnations, hewn and clothed with petals, accompanied by butterflies and caterpillars - 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 - Carnation flower fairy, Dianthus caryophyllus - Handcoloured steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from “” Les Fleurs Animees,”” 1847 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4637511: The blueberry and poppy fees walk in a field, with musician grasshoppers - Eau forte by Charles Geoffroy (1819-1882), from an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard dit J.J.J.Granville (1803-1847), for Les fleurs animees, 1847 - Cornflower and poppy flower fairies - Handcoloured steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from “” Les Fleurs Animees,”” 1847 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4637700: The fee of the vine holds a bunch of grapes, at its feet a broken bottle and a drunk bird holding a glass of wine - 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 - Tipsy grapevine flower fairy, Vitis vinifera - Handcoloured steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from “” Les Fleurs Animees”””, 1847 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4638239: Artist's view of the galactic center - The galactic center. Artwork. - Central region of our galaxy; it contains the powerful radio source Sagittarius A which is believed to be associated with a supermassive black hole. The central part of our galaxy contains a powerful radio source (Sagittarius A) which seems to be associated to a supermassive black hole / Bridgeman Images