FLO4687119: Decorative figures from the House of Epigrams, Regio V, Insula 1, 18. An urn and mythical beast at top, and a goat and hunting scene with dog and hare below. Chromolithograph by Victor Steeger after an illustration by Geremia Discanno from Emile Presuhn (1844-1878) The Most Beautiful Paintings of Pompeii, Leipzig, 1881., Discanno, Geremia (1839-1907) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4687347: Bresilian epic pork (Coendou prehensilis), semi-arboreal American epic pork of the tropical strains, whose tail prehensile allows it to climb trees. Drawing by Thomas Pennant (1726-1798). Lithographie in The Naturalist Pocket Magazine or Cabinet complete des Curiosites et Beautes de la Nature, published between 1798 and 1802, by Harrison, London, England. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4687485: Virginia or American opossum (Didelphis virginiana), North American marsupial. Illustration copy of “” The True Representation”” account for the philosophical transactions of the Royal Society by Thomas Pennant (1726-1798). Lithographie in The Naturalist Pocket Magazine or Cabinet complete des Curiosites et Beautes de la Nature, published between 1798 and 1802, by Harrison, London, England. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4686695: Woman of Vialka, Russia, 1860. Handcoloured steel engraving by Hippolyte Pauquet from the Pauquet Brothers' “” Modes et Costumes Etrangers Anciens et Modernes” (Foreign Fashions and Costumes Ancient and Modern), Paris, 1865. Hippolyte (b. 1797) and Polydor Pauquet (b. 1799) ran a successful publishing house in Paris in the 19th century, specializing in illustrated books on costume, birds, butterflies, anatomy and natural history. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4686711: Fashionable dandies, soldiers and ladies in the colonnade of the Palais Royal. Dick Wildfire and Squire Jenkins seeing Real Life in the Galleries of the Palais Royal. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cruikshank from David Carey's Life in Paris, the Rambles, Sprees and Amours of Dick Wildfire, Fairburn, London, 1822. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4686758: Fashionable dandies, soldiers and ladies strolling in the Tuileries Garden. Dick Wildfire and the Captain promenading in the Garden of the Thuilleries. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cruikshank from David Carey's Life in Paris, the Rambles, Sprees and Amours of Dick Wildfire, Fairburn, London, 1822. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4686877: Wall painting from a room in the House of the Epigrams. V, Ins. 1, No. 18. Chromolithograph by Victor Steeger after an illustration by Geremia Discanno from Emile Presuhn (1844-1878) The Most Beautiful Paintings of Pompeii, Leipzig, 1881., Discanno, Geremia (1839-1907) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4686942: Wall painting from a room in the Domus M. Asellini or House of Adonis or House of Venus and Adonis or Casa di Ione or Casa con Xystus, Reg. VI.7.18. Drawn and chromolithographed by Victor Steeger from Emile Presuhn (1844-1878) The Most Beautiful Paintings of Pompeii, Leipzig, 1881., Discanno, Geremia (1839-1907) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4686969: Decorative ornaments with centaurs and harpies in the oecus or living room in the house of Lucius Caecilius Iucundus. Chromolithograph by Victor Steeger after an illustration by Geremia Discanno from Emile Presuhn (1844-1878) The Most Beautiful Paintings of Pompeii, Leipzig, 1881., Discanno, Geremia (1839-1907) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4687005: Wall painting of an arabesque with a mask of Oceanus found in Herculaneum, and two other ornaments of Oceanus and a lotus flower found in the Temple of Isis. All now in the Museum of Naples. Chromolithograph by Victor Steeger after an illustration by Geremia Discanno from Emile Presuhn (1844-1878) The Most Beautiful Paintings of Pompeii, Leipzig, 1881., Discanno, Geremia (1839-1907) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4687134: Wall painting of Narcissus contemplating his reflection said to have been found in the Casa delle Vestali or House of the Vestals, Reg. VI, Ins. 1, No. 7. Chromolithograph by Victor Steeger after an illustration by Geremia Discanno from Emile Presuhn (1844-1878) The Most Beautiful Paintings of Pompeii, Leipzig, 1881., Discanno, Geremia (1839-1907) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4687163: House altar or lararium in the house of the banker Lucius Caecilius Iucundus, Regio V.1.26. Chromolithograph by Victor Steeger after an illustration by Geremia Discanno from Emile Presuhn (1844-1878) The Most Beautiful Paintings of Pompeii, Leipzig, 1881., Discanno, Geremia (1839-1907) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4687467: Black atele, four-finger monkey, or atele coaita or araignee monkey (Ateles paniscus). Small arboreal monkey from South America's forests, very fast and agile, helps with this by its long prehensile tail, which also serves as a swing when it leaps. Lithographie in The Naturalist Pocket Magazine or Cabinet complete des Curiosites et Beautes de la Nature, published between 1798 and 1802, by Harrison, London, England. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4687513: The black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis), a herbivorous bi-horned mammal, lives in Africa, the only species of the genus Diceros. Animal hunting by the Khoisan tribes of South Africa for the consumption of its flesh, but also for its horns and leather. Illustration by Thomas Pennant (1726-1798). Lithographie in The Naturalist Pocket Magazine or Cabinet complete des Curiosites et Beautes de la Nature, published between 1798 and 1802, by Harrison, London, England. / Bridgeman Images