FLO4568752: Portrait of the dancer Auguste Vestris Junior (1760-1842), wearing a feather hat, a wrapped jacket, panties and stockings and holding a wreath of flowers, for the ballet Les Amants Surprise, in 1781. The illegitimate son of the dancer Gaetan Vestris and Marie Allard, he made his debuts in London in 1772, in this ballet beside Giovanna Baccelli, and amazed the audience with his agilite. Engraved by Thornwaite, after a cartoon and J.Roberts, published in Bell's British Theatre”, 1781. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4568965: Interior of the Abu Simbel rock temples to Pharaoh Ramesses II (Ramses Ii) and his queen Nefertiti, Nubia, southern Egypt. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Theodore Goetz from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1823. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4562273: Flower and leaf of autumn colchique (Crocus), whose flower resembles that of saffron. Illustration by C. Curtis, engraving by Weddell. Eau forte in The Curtis Botanical Magazine, by Samuel Curtis, 1826, with the help of William Jackson Hooper, professor of botany at the University of Glascow (Scotland). / Bridgeman Images