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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PIX4638074: Our Galaxy, The Lactee Way - Artist's View - Our Galaxy, the Milky Way. Artwork / Bridgeman Images

PIX4638130: Artist's view of our galaxy and the Great Magellan Cloud - Our galaxy, globular clusters and Large Magellanic cloud. Artwork / Bridgeman Images

FLO4638151: Nutmeg and mace tree, Myristica fragrans (Nux moschata). Handcoloured lithograph by A.M. Traice after an illustration by A.W. from Edward Hamilton's Flora Homeopathica, Bailliere, London, 1852. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4638160: Our Galaxy, the Lactee Way -Artist's View - Our Galaxy, the Lactee Way -Artist's View, Dixon, Don (b.1951) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4638191: St. Anthony's turnip or bulbous buttercup, Ranunculus bulbosus. Handcoloured lithograph by Henry Sowerby after an illustration by A.E. from Edward Hamilton's Flora Homeopathica, Bailliere, London, 1852. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4638099: Our galaxy and the magellanian current-Illustration - Representation of the “” magellanic current”” created by the gravitational attraction of our galaxy on the two galaxies of the Magellan cloud / Bridgeman Images

FLO4638108: Roughbark lignum-vitae or guaiacwood, Guaiacum officinale. Endangered. Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Henry Sowerby from Edward Hamilton's Flora Homeopathica, Bailliere, London, 1852. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4638020: Our Galaxy, The Lactee Way - Artist's View - Our Galaxy, the Milky Way. Artwork / Bridgeman Images

FLO4638177: Opium poppy, Papaver somniferum. Handcoloured lithograph by Henry Sowerby from Edward Hamilton's Flora Homeopathica, Bailliere, London, 1852. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4638210: Common Street, Ruta graveolens. Handcoloured lithograph by Henry Sowerby after an illustration by L.W. from Edward Hamilton's Flora Homeopathica, Bailliere, London, 1852. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4638127: Cherry laurel, Prunus laurocerasus (Lauro-cerasus). Handcoloured lithograph by Henry Sowerby after an illustration by A.W. from Edward Hamilton's Flora Homeopathica, Bailliere, London, 1852. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4638240: Sarsaparilla, Smilax aristolochiifolia (Smilax medica). Handcoloured lithograph by Charlotte Caroline Sowerby from Edward Hamilton's Flora Homeopathica, Bailliere, London, 1852. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4638175: Our Galaxy, the Lactee Way -Artist's View - The Lactee Way -Illustratio / 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

FLO4638289: Jimsonweed or devil's snare, Datura stramonium. Handcoloured lithograph by Charlotte Caroline Sowerby from Edward Hamilton's Flora Homeopathica, Bailliere, London, 1852. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4638406: George Brooke, 9th Lord Cobham, 1497-1558. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Francis Bartolozzi after Hans Holbein from Facsimiles of Original Drawings by Hans Holbein, Hamilton, Adams, London, 1884. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4638502: Margaret Clement (ne Giggs), foster daughter of Thomas More, wife to John Clement, tutor to the More children. (Mislabeled as Mother Jak, nurse to King Edward VI.) Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Francis Bartolozzi after Hans Holbein from Facsimiles of Original Drawings by Hans Holbein, Hamilton, Adams, London, 1884. / Bridgeman Images

LRI4638749: Still life with flowers and fruits Painting by Isaac Soreau (1604-1644) 17th century Turin Galleria Sabauda, inv 758, Soreau, Isaac (b.1604) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4638702: Lime hawk-moth, Mimas tillae, and common vapourer moth or rusty tussock, Orgyia antiqua, on lime leaves, Tillia europaea. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Moses Harris from “The Aurelian; a Natural History of English Moths and Butterflies,””” new edition edited by J. O. Westwood, published by Henry Bohn, London, 1840. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4638533: Elizabeth Cooke, Lady Hobby, wife of Sir Thomas Hobby (d. 1596). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Francis Bartolozzi after Hans Holbein from Facsimiles of Original Drawings by Hans Holbein, Hamilton, Adams, London, 1884. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4638849: Small pearl bordered fritillary butterfly, Boloria selene, and Clifden nonpareil moth, Catocala fraxini. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Moses Harris from “The Aurelian; a Natural History of English Moths and Butterflies,””” new edition edited by J. O. Westwood, published by Henry Bohn, London, 1840. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4638856: Death's head, bee tiger or jasmine hawk-moth, Acherontia atropos, with caterpillar on a jasmine branch and flower, Jasminum officinale. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Moses Harris from “The Aurelian; a Natural History of English Moths and Butterflies,””” new edition edited by J. O. Westwood, published by Henry Bohn, London, 1840. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4638871: Mottled or frosted orange moth, Gortyna flavago, half mourner, Ceropacha diluta, ringlet, Aphantopus hyperantus, barred yellow, Cidaria fulvata, seven-spot ermine or muslin moth, Diaphora mendica, and orange underwing, Archiearis parthenias. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Moses Harris from “The Aurelian; a Natural History of English Moths and Butterflies,””” new edition edited by J. O. Westwood, published by Henry Bohn, London, 1840. / Bridgeman Images