FLO4677829: Choosing the jockey: Young woman in form-revealing dress and short martyr hairstyle seated on chaise longue pointing to a young man with a dog, while two older men and a black servant boy watch. “” You recognise this charming chambermaid of Mrs.*** and her charming jockey. In the bathroom in the morning, behind the cabriolet in the afternoon.” Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesanger's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4678119: Louise of Savoy (Savoie), mother of King Francis I of France, 1476-1532. After a vellum manuscript in the King's Library. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Gatine after an illustration by Louis Marie Lante from Pierre de la Mesanger's “Costumes des femmes celebres” (Costumes of Famous Women), Paris, 1827. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4678253: Suit of armour of an Italian man at arms of Count Gironi, Bologna, 1555. The suit has flexible splints at elbows, breastplate and backplate, and a flexible codpiece for comfort when seated in the saddle. Geman pennated dagger at bottom. Handcoloured lithograph by Maddocks after an illustration by S.R. Meyrick from Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick's A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4678159: Marion de Lorme (Delorme) (Marie de Lon, Lady of Lorme) (1613-1650) French courtesan. After a miniature on vellum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Gatine after an illustration by Louis Marie Lante from Pierre de la Mesanger's “Costumes des femmes celebres” (Costumes of Famous Women), Paris, 1827. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4678295: Archer and crossbow man, 1250. English longbowman in skullcap helmet cerebrerium, hauberk, leather breastplate and arrows in a girdle. The crossbowman or arbalister wears a nasal helmet and hauberk and carries a short sword baselard. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by S.R. Meyrick from Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick's A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4678554: A dismounted knight and one of the king's guards to King Henry VIII, 1525. The knight holds a mace or martel de fer, drapery lamboys covering half the breastplate. Guard in arming doublet with chainmail sleeves, carrying a spontoon shield and pike. Handcoloured lithograph by Maddocks after an illustration by S.R. Meyrick from Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick's A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4678642: A suit of cuirassier's armour at the time of the Restoration, 1650. Leather, helmet, pauldrons and brassarts of blue steel, buff coat, gambado boots and spurs, sword in fringed baudrick on a sash, rifle on a buff belt. In the possession of Llewelyn Meyrick 1650. Handcoloured lithograph by Maddocks after an illustration by S.R. Meyrick from Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick's A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4678397: A knight of the Birmingham family, 1420. He wears a bassinet, suit of plate armour with flexible cuirasset, knee pads, shoulder and elbow plates, and carries a battle axe. Helmet of Sir John de Wydevill at bottom. Handcoloured lithograph by Maddocks after an illustration by S.R. Meyrick from Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick's A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4678729: Elegant Lupin or Lupin from Mexico - Engraved by S.Watts, from an illustration by Sarah Anne Drake (1803-1857), from the Botanical Register of Sydenham Edwards (1768-1819), England, 1833 - Mexican lupine, Lupinus elegans (Drooping-leaved lupine) - Engraving by S. Watts after an illustration by Miss Drake from Sydenham Edwards' “The Botanical Register,”” London, Ridgway, 1833, Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4678487: Sir John Crosbie or Crosby, London alderman and Yorkist, and a serjeant at arms, 1475. Crosby wears a breastplate with three cupboards, elbow pieces and tiles, ornamented knee pads. Serjeant at arms in skullcap under a plumed hat, cuirasset and knee pads. Handcoloured lithograph by Maddocks after an illustration by S.R. Meyrick from Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick's A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4678810: Variete of gompholobium (family of leguminous plants), native to Australia - Plate engraved by S.Watts, from an illustration by Sarah Anne Drake (1803-1857), from the Botanical Register of Sydenham Edwards (1768-1819), England, 1833 - Gompholobium confertum (Clustered burtonia, Burtonia conferta) - Engraving by S. Watts after an illustration by Miss Drake from Sydenham Edwards' “” The Botanical Register,” London, Ridgway, 1833, Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4678450: King Richard III of England, Duke of Gloucester, 1452-1485, or his father Richard, Third Duke of York 1411-1460. He wears a crown, a suit of armour with a globular breastplate and engraved plates, fingered gauntlets, and holds a two-handed sword. From a stained glass window in Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Handcoloured lithograph by Maddocks after an illustration by S.R. Meyrick from Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick's A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4678946: Orchid: variety of gongora, native to South America - Plate engraved by S.Watts, from an illustration by Sarah Anne Drake (1803-1857), from the Botanical Register of Sydenham Edwards (1768-1819), England, 1833 - Spotted gongora orchid, Gongora maculata - Engraving by S. Watts after an illustration by Miss Drake from Sydenhake from Sydenhake Am Edwards' “” The Botanical Register,” London, Ridgway, 1833, Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4678481: King Henry VII of England and a billman, 1490. Henry VII's engraved suit of armour in the Tower of London, with convex breastplate, puckered plate skirt of lamboys, square sollerets and plumed capquetel helmet. Horse in barding, chamfron, manefaire, poitral and croupiere. Billman in jazerine jacket and salad helmet. Handcoloured lithograph by Maddocks after an illustration by S.R. Meyrick from Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick's A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4678763: Boisduvalia variete, dense-flowered epilobe - Engraved board by S.Watts, from an illustration by Sarah Anne Drake (1803-1857), from the Botanical Register of Sydenham Edwards (1768-1819), England, 1833 - Denseflower willowherb, Boisduvalia densiflora (Close-flowered evening primrose, Oenothera densiflora) - Engraving by S. Watts after an illustration by Miss Drake from Sydenham Edwards' “” The Botanical Register,”” London, Ridgway, 1833, Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4678962: Purple flower petunia - Plate engraved by S.Watts, from an illustration by Sarah Anne Drake (1803-1857), from the Botanical Register of Sydenham Edwards (1768-1819), England, 1833 - Purple-flowered petunia, Petunia integrifolia (Purple petunia, Petunia violacea) - Engraving by S. Watts after an illustration by Miss Drake from Sydenham Edwards'” “The Botanical Register,” London, Ridgway, 1833, Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4678860: Passion Variete - Plate engraved by S.Watts, from an illustration by Sarah Anne Drake (1803-1857), from the Botanical Register of Sydenham Edwards (1768-1819), England, 1833 - Crimson winged-stem passionflower, Passiflora alata (Passiflora phoenicia) - Engraving by S. Watts after an illustration by Miss Drake from Sydenham Edwardam Edwards 'The' Botanical Register,” London, Ridgway, 1833, Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4678885: Evening primrose with large flowers - Engraved board by S.Watts, from an illustration by Sarah Anne Drake (1803-1857), from the Botanical Register of Sydenham Edwards (1768-1819), England, 1833 - Redsepal evening primrose, Oenothera glazioviana (Large-flowered biennial evening primrose, Oenothera biennis var. grandiflora) - Engraving) - by S. Watts after an illustration by Miss Drake from Sydenham Edwards' “” The Botanical Register,”” London, Ridgway, 1833, Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4678966: Belle sauroglossum - Plate engraved by S.Watts, from an illustration by Sarah Anne Drake (1803-1857), from the Botanical Register of Sydenham Edwards (1768-1819), England, 1833 - Lizard's tongue orchid, Sauroglossum nitidum (Tall lizard's tongue, Sauroglossum elatum - Engraving by S. Watts after an illustration by S. Watts after an illustration by Miss Drake from Sydenham Edwards' The Botanical Register,” London, Ridgway, 1833, Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4680936: Toad headed agama, Phrynocephalus mystaceus mystaceus (Lobe-cheeked lizard, Lacerta aurita). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, London, 1803. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4679713: Roman mythology: Ceres, goddess of agriculture, harvests and fertility, holding a sickle and a bushel of wheat - Eau forte by Jacques Louis Constant Lacerf, based on an illustration by Leonard Defrance (1735-1805), extracted from mythology in fabulous prints or divine figures, circa 1820 - Ceres, Roman goddess of the harvest and agriculture, in toga and laurel crown, with scythe and bushel of wheat - Handcoloured copperplate engraving engraved by Jacques Louis Constant Lacerf after illustrations by Leonard Defrance from “” Mythology in Prints or Figures of Fabled Gods””, Chez P. Blanchard, Paris, c 1820 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4680761: Butterfly Atrophaneura hector (Indian lepidoptere, Asia). Signed illustration S (George Shaw). Copper engraving for the naturalist collection, published in 1796 by Frederick Nodder (1751-1801) and George Shaw. Crimson pink butterfly, Atrophaneura hector. Illustration signed S (George Shaw). Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's “” The Naturalist's Miscellany””” 1796. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4680765: Nightmare has swings. Signed illustration S (George Shaw). Copper engraving for the naturalist collection, published in 1796 by Frederick Nodder (1751-1801) and George Shaw. Standard-winged nightjar, Macrodipteryx longipennis. Illustration signed S (George Shaw). Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's “” The Naturalist's Miscellany””” 1796. / 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