FLO4690316: The skeleton of Death burns down a house with torches as a family tries to save its treasures and put out the fire with buckets of water from the pond. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Thomas Rowlandson from The English Dance of Death, Ackermann, London, 1816., Rowlandson, Thomas (1756-1827) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4690433: A woman expires in shock at the sight of a blank piece of paper brandished by the skeleton of Death in a Lottery Office. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Thomas Rowlandson from The English Dance of Death, Ackermann, London, 1816., Rowlandson, Thomas (1756-1827) / Bridgeman Images
LRI4689807: Etruscan civilization: bronze helmet with inscription “” haspnas””” making reference to a model of military organization (bronze helmet with inscription referring to military organization) - From Vetulonia - 5th century BC - Dim 21 cm height - Florence, museo archeologico, Etruscan, (5th century BC) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4689848: Buttery collybia, Collybia butyracea, and spindleshank mushroom, Gymnopus fusipes (Collybia fusipes). Chromolithograph by Lassus after an illustration by A. Bessin from Leon Rolland's Guide to Mushrooms from France, Switzerland and Belgium, Atlas des Mushrooms, Paul Klincksieck, Paris, 1910. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4689984: Rough-stemmed bolete, Boletus scaber and red-capped scaber stalk, Leccinum aurantiacum (Boletus aurantiacus). Chromolithograph by Lassus after an illustration by A. Bessin from Leon Rolland's Guide to Mushrooms from France, Switzerland and Belgium, Atlas des Mushrooms, Paul Klincksieck, Paris, 1910. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4689796: Blackening brittlegill, Russula nigricans, and charcoal burner, Russula cyanoxantha. Chromolithograph by Lassus after an illustration by A. Bessin from Leon Rolland's Guide to Mushrooms from France, Switzerland and Belgium, Atlas des Mushrooms, Paul Klincksieck, Paris, 1910. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4689842: Little shiitake, Lentinus tigrinus and deep root mushroom, Xerula radicata (Collybia radicata). Chromolithograph by Lassus after an illustration by A. Bessin from Leon Rolland's Guide to Mushrooms from France, Switzerland and Belgium, Atlas des Mushrooms, Paul Klincksieck, Paris, 1910. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4690247: The skeleton of Death carries off a wounded man before the doctor can wait him after a fatal duel with pistols in a park. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Thomas Rowlandson from The English Dance of Death, Ackermann, London, 1816., Rowlandson, Thomas (1756-1827) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4690481: The skeleton of Death pours a fatal glass of wine for old fool Sir Peter on his Honeymoon, while his young wife Julia flirts with Major Henry at the window. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Thomas Rowlandson from The English Dance of Death, Ackermann, London, 1816., Rowlandson, Thomas (1756-1827) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4690532: The Spa Terrace: tourists taking a stroll on a windy day on the Cliff Terrace. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Thomas Rowlandson, aquatint by J. C. Stadler, after a sketch by J. Green from Poetical Sketches of Scarborough, Ackermann, London, 1813., Rowlandson, Thomas (1756-1827) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4688167: House of Ariadne or the House of the Coloured Capitals, VII.4.31/51, Pompeii. Chromolithograph after an illustration by S. De Stefano from Antonio Niccoliniõs Pompeii: Views and Restorations (Pompeii: Essaies et Restorations), published by Fausto Niccolini, Naples, 1898. Antonio was grandson of the architect Antonio Niccolini Sr. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4689568: The world of women: various toiletries, including necklace, comb, jewellery, cosmetics, oils and perfumes - Chromolithography from Le Livre des Parfums by Eugene Rimmel (1820-1887), France, 1870 - Mundus muliebris or a woman's world: objects of a woman's toilet including necklace, comb, jewelry, cosmetics, oils and fumes - Chromolithograph from Eugene Rimmel's Le Livre des Parfums, Paris, 1870. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4689651: Black bulgar, Bulgaria inquinans, candlestick fungus, Xylaria hypoxylon, Elaphomyces muricatus (Elaphomyces variegatus), black truffle, Tuber melanosporum, and summer truffle, Tuber aestivum. Chromolithograph by Lassus after an illustration by A. Bessin from Leon Rolland's Guide to Mushrooms from France, Switzerland and Belgium, Atlas des Mushrooms, Paul Klincksieck, Paris, 1910. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4689709: Soap-scented toadstool, Tricholoma saponaceum, and grey knight mushroom, Tricholoma terreum. Chromolithograph by Lassus after an illustration by A. Bessin from Leon Rolland's Guide to Mushrooms from France, Switzerland and Belgium, Atlas des Mushrooms, Paul Klincksieck, Paris, 1910. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4688662: Chelsea Pensioner and Greenwich Pensioner. Army veteran in the redcoat uniform of the Chelsea Hospital holding a pipe, and Navy veteran in the blue uniform of Greenwich Hospital with pegleg holding a tankard. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from William Henry Pyne's The World in Miniature: England, Scotland and Ireland, Ackermann, 1827. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4688892: Yellow bramble rose, Rosa lutea, from Robert Tyas' “Queen of Flowers, or Memoirs of the Rose,” London, 1840. Unsigned handcoloured lithograph, but probably by James Andrews. Little is known about the artist James Andrews (1801 ~ 1876) apart from his work. This gifted artist taught flower-painting to young ladies and published a treatise “” Lessons in Flower Painting”” in 1835. Blunt calls him “” an illustrator of sentimental flower books,””” but admits that he was “” very talented.”” His signature JA can be found in many botanical gift books for publisher Robert Tyas from “” The Sentiment of Flowers”” (1836) to “” Flowers from Foreign Lands”” (1853). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4688896: Double white rose, Rosa alba, from Robert Tyas' “” Queen of Flowers, or Memoirs of the Rose,”” London, 1840. Unsigned handcoloured lithograph, but probably by James Andrews. Little is known about the artist James Andrews (1801 ~ 1876) apart from his work. This gifted artist taught flower-painting to young ladies and published a treatise “” Lessons in Flower Painting”” in 1835. Blunt calls him “” an illustrator of sentimental flower books,””” but admits that he was “” very talented.”” His signature JA can be found in many botanical gift books for publisher Robert Tyas from “” The Sentiment of Flowers”” (1836) to “” Flowers from Foreign Lands”” (1853). / Bridgeman Images