FLO4577897: Spring Omphalodes or Printaniere Little Borage - Creeping navelwort, Omphalodes verna (blue navelwort, Cynoglossum omphalodes). Handcolured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Curtis' The Botanical Magazine, Lambeth Marsh, London, 1786., Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4578092: Large bright yellow savannah flower, native to Jamaican and Santo Domingo. Larger savanna flower with vivid yellow flower, a native of the savannas of Jamaica and St. Domingo. Echites suberecta.Handcolored copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis's “” Botanical Magazine”” 1790-1800., Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4578141: Blue and white linen, with pale blue flowers, native to Europe. Blue and white flax with pale blue flowers. A native of Europe. Linum ascyrifolium. Handcolored copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis's “” Botanical Magazine”” 1790-1800., Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4578610: Black huckleberry, Gaylussacia baccata (Red-flowered clammy whortle-berry, Vaccinium resinosum) - Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Sansom Jr. after an illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis' Botanical Magazine, T. Curtis, London, 1810, Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4578083: Wachendorfia (red root) has large yellow and orange flower at tip. Tall flowering wachendorfia with yellow and orange spiked flowers. A native of South Africa. Wachendorfia thyrsiflora. Handcolored copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis's “” Botanical Magazine”” 1790-1800., Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4578128: American pancratium has fragrant white flowers. American pancratium with white fragrant flowers.Pancratium rotatum.Handcolored copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis's “” Botanical Magazine”” 1790-1800., Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4578175: Veltheimia has glaucus leaf, a beautiful lily (lily) from the Cape of Good Esperance (South Africa). Glaucous leaved veltheimia, a beautiful lily from the Cape of Good Hope. Veltheimia glauca. Handcolored copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis's “” Botanical Magazine”” 1790-1805., Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4578507: Climbing milkvine, Matelea obliqua (Virginian cynanchum, Cynanchum discolor). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Sansom Jr. after an illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis' Botanical Magazine, T. Curtis, London, 1810., Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4579001: Chinese Lantern or Nymania - Lithography by Sydenham Edwards (1768-1819), from the Botanical Magazine by William Curtis (1746-1799), 1791 (England) - Chinese lantern or cape aitonia, Nymania capensis (Aitonia capensis) - Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis's Botanical “” Magazine,” St. George's Crescent, London, 1791, Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4578883: Garlic leaning - Nodding onion, lady's leek or bowed-umbelled garlic, Allium cernuum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Sansom Jr. after an illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis' Botanical Magazine, T. Curtis, London, 1810., Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4575177: Crowns of the ancients: radial crowns 1,2, laurel wreaths 3,4, civic crown 5, Obsidionalis (for generals who delivered a town under siege) 6, crenellated Murali (for the first man to the wall of a besieged town) 7, Vallaris (for soldiers who stormed enemy camps) 8 and naval coronet (for victories at sea) 9. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J.B. Hoessel from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1802. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4575414: Bearded seal, Erignathus barbatus 1, southern sea lion, Otaria flavescens 2, ringed seal, Pusa hispida 3, and Mediterranean monk seal, Monachus monachus 4, critically endangered. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1802. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4575612: Wild arum, Arum maculatum, and meadow saffron or autumn crocus, Colchicum autumnale. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1805. 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., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4575655: The floating batteries of the British army in Gibraltar in 1782. A 210-gun barge on two levels and another single-tier barge designed by the French engineer of Arcon to bomb the city. The floating batteries of the British Navy at Gibraltar, 1782. A barge with 210 cannons on two tiers, and another single-tier barge, designed by the French engineer d'Arcon to bombard the town. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1805. 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., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4575672: Egyptian gods: Apis 1, Bubastis 2,3, Anubis 4, Canopus 5, and the sacred Ibis 6. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1805. 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., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images