FLO4570583: Bourgeois man of Paris, 15th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Leopold Massard after a miniature in the manuscript Chronicles de Monstrelet in Roger de Gaignieres' portfolio V 6 from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul Lacroix's Costumes Historique de la France (Historical Costumes of France), Administration de Librairie, Paris, 1852., Massard, Leopold (1812-1889) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4570751: Anne de France, Dame de Beaujeu, wife of Peter II of Bourbon, Regent of France d.1522. Handcoloured lithograph from a manuscript for Anne de Bretagne in Bernard de Montfaucon IV 9 from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul Lacroix's Costumes Historique de la France (Historical Costumes of France), Administration de Librairie, Paris, 1852. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4570811: Anne, Duchess of Brittany, Queen of France, 1477-1514. Anne of Brittany, Queen of France. Handcoloured lithograph by Georges Lafosse after a miniature by Jean Marot in Bernard de Montfaucon's collection IV VII from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul Lacroix's Costumes Historique de la France (Historical Costumes of France), Administration de Librairie, Paris, 1852. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4570830: King Charles VIII of France, the Affable, 1470-1498. He wears a black chapel hat and velvet cassock with long sleeves. Handcoloured lithograph after a portrait in the hotel de Soissons in Roger de Gaignieres' portfolio VII 55 from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul Lacroix's Costumes Historique de la France (Historical Costumes of France), Administration de Librairie, Paris, 1852., Massard, Leopold (1812-1889) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4570932: Francois de la Rochefoucauld, chamberlain to kings Charles VIII and Louis XII, d. 1517. Handcoloured lithograph after a miniature of the court of King Louis XII in Roger de Gaignieres' portfolio VII 141 from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul Lacroix's Costumes Historique de la France (Historical Costumes of France), Administration de Librairie, Paris, 1852. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4569307: Damask rose, Rosa damascena communis, and striped rose, Rosa versicolor. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1790-1830. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4569350: The Cathedrale Notre Dame de Reims (Marne, Champagne Ardennes region) has several titles among the places of memory in France. Built on the traditional place of the baptism of Clovis (466-511), it was the seat of the royal sacres; its bombing in 1917, leaving its vaults, made it a symbol of the horrors of the First World War. The verticality of the interior elevation and the perfection of the counterbutting make the largest of the French cathedrals, batie from 1211 to 1275, a perfect expression of classical Gothic. The rich sculpted decor is characterized by the famous smile of Reims and the antique style of some statues. Its treasor, one of the largest and richest in France, is preserved at the Palais du Tau. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4569365: Pink burnet, Rosa spinosissima flora flavo. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from an illustration drawn from nature by Stark from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1790-1830. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4568576: Portrait of actress Elizabeth Hopkins in the role of Volumnia in the play Coriolan, by William Shakespeare (1564-1616). She was married to a Drury Lane theatre and led a career in theatre for 34 years. Drawing by James Roberts, engraving by Grignon published in “” Bell's Shakespeare””, John Bell, 1776-1785, London, England. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4568732: Open Cluster of Pleiades - The Pleiades star cluster - The Pleiades cluster is a cluster of about 500 young stars nees 150 million years ago. Visible in the constellation Taurus, this cluster is 440 years from the Earth. The Pleiades are one of the finest and nearest examples of a reflection nebula associated with a cluster of young stars. The cluster itself is a group of many hundreds of stars about 400 light years from Earth in the northern constellation of Taurus and has been recognised since ancient times. Seven of the brightest stars are quite easy to see with the unaided eye and bear the names of the Seven Sisters, the daughters of Atlas. The nebulosity seen here is light reflected from the particles in a cloud of cold gas and dust into which the cluster has drifted. It appears blue because these tiny interstellar particles scatter blue light more efficiently than the longer wavelengths of red light and it is streaky because of the distribution of dust particles in space / Bridgeman Images
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
FLO4568785: Portrait of actress Charlotte Ann Twistleton (nee Wattell) in 1798, at the height of her glory. She met her husband Thomas, Lord de Say and Sele, in a private theatre and began her career on the professional stage in 1793. Against the family's will, she worked at Covent Garden where she had a relationship with Mr. Stein, who led her to divorce in 1798. She continued her career in theatre, then her trace was lost in America in the 1800s. Engraving by Ridley, based on a painting by W.Naish, in The Monthly Mirror, published in Covent Garden, London, 1796. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4568961: M24 in Sagittarius - M24 star cluster in Sagittarius - Central part of the star cloud M24. On the left, the cluster of stars NGC 6603; on the upper right, two dark nebulae, Barnard 92 and 93. Center of the star cluster M24. At left, the star cluster NGC 6603. Two dark nebulas, Barnard 92 and Barnard 93 are also visible at the top of the image / Bridgeman Images