FLO4608508: Napoleon Bonaparte directing the burning of the Great Mosque and other mosques to quell the Cairo Uprising during the Egyptian Campaign, 1798. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cruikshank from The Life of Napoleon a Hudibrastic Poem by Doctor Syntax, T. Tegg, London, 1815. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4608644: Compendial borage. Coloriee copper engraving, in herbarium of English medicinal plants (published by Joshua Hamilton in 1792) by Nicolas Culpeper (1616-1654), English herbalist, botanist, and astrologer. Borage, Borago officinalis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Joshua Hamilton's “Culpeper's English Family Physician” 1792. Nicholas Culpeper (1616-1654) was an English botanist, herbalist and astrologer famous for his “” Complete Herbal””” of 1653. / Bridgeman Images
LRI4609691: Portrait of Don Biagio Milanesi, General of the Order of the Abbey of Vallombrosa Profile of a monk from the monastery of Vallombreuse. Painting by Pietro Vannucci dit il Perugino (The Perugin, 1446 - 1523) 1499 approx. Sun. 26x27 cm Florence, galleria degli Uffizi (Offices), Perugino, Pietro (c.1445-1523) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4609972: Butterflies: Hesperia of the quackgrass or acteon and soda plant brulee. Lithograph by John Curtis (1791-1862) published in “British Entomology”, a collection of 770 illustrations and descriptions of insects from Great Britain, London, England, 1824 to 1839. Hesperia actaeon, Thymelicus acteon, Lulworth Skipper, and prickly glasswort, Salsola kali. Handcoloured copperplate by John Curtis (1791-1862) for his own “” British Entomology, 770 Illustrations and Descriptions of the Genera of Insects found in Great Britain and Ireland,” London, from 1824 to 1839. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4609984: Coleoptere variete dermestis and plant of officinal cynoglosses or dog tongue. Lithograph by John Curtis (1791-1862) published in “British Entomology”, a collection of 770 illustrations and descriptions of British insects, London, England, 1824 to 1839. Aspidophorus orbiculatus, Orbicular Dermestes beetle and common hounds-tongue. Handcoloured copperplate by John Curtis (1791-1862) for his own “” British Entomology, 770 Illustrations and Descriptions of the Genera of Insects found in Great Britain and Ireland,” London, from 1824 to 1839. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4610098: Insect, coleoptere, hister with four spots and ornithogale with a pennel. Lithograph by John Curtis (1791-1862) published in “British Entomology”, a collection of 770 illustrations and descriptions of British insects, London, England, 1824 to 1839. Hister quadrimaculatus, Lunar-spotted Mimic beetle, and common bethlehem star, Ornithogalum umbellatum. Handcoloured copperplate by John Curtis (1791-1862) for his own “” British Entomology, 770 Illustrations and Descriptions of the Genera of Insects found in Great Britain and Ireland,” London, from 1824 to 1839. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4610516: St. John's wort, Hypericum perforatum, Polyadelphia, 1,2, and blue bottle or cornflower, Centaurea cyanus, Syngenesia, 3-5. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Sansom of a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards for William Curtis' Lectures on Botany, as delivered in the Botanic Garden at Lambeth, 1805., Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4610389: Yellow gaillet or yellow milk quail. Coloured copper engraving, illustration by Sydenham Edwards (1768-1819) for Conferences of Botanical, Botanical Garden of Lambeth (England), 1805, by William Curtis (1746-1799). Ladies bed straw, Galium verum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards for William Curtis's “” Lectures on Botany, as delivered in the Botanic Garden at Lambeth,”” 1805. Edwards (1768-1819) was the artist of thousands of botanical plates for Curtis' “” Botanical Magazine”” and his own “” Botanical Register.””, Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4610428: Corolla: field edge (flower has a single petal), lily (hexapetal) and lily (polypetal). Coloured copper engraving, illustration by Sydenham Edwards (1768-1819) for Conferences of Botanical, Botanical Garden of Lambeth (England), 1805, by William Curtis (1746-1799). Corolla examples: monopetalous bindweed Convolvulus arvensis, hexapetala lily Lilium and polypetala waterlily Nymphaea. Handcoloured copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards for William Curtis's “” Lectures on Botany, as delivered in the Botanic Garden at Lambeth,”” 1805. Edwards (1768-1819) was the artist of thousands of botanical plates for Curtis' “” Botanical Magazine”” and his own “” Botanical Register.””, Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4610344: Rose, rose flower hundred leaves. Coloured copper engraving, illustration by Sydenham Edwards (1768-1819) for Conferences of Botanical, Botanical Garden of Lambeth (England), 1805, by William Curtis (1746-1799). Rose, Rosa centifolia. Handcoloured copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards for William Curtis's “” Lectures on Botany, as delivered in the Botanic Garden at Lambeth,”” 1805. Edwards (1768-1819) was the artist of thousands of botanical plates for Curtis' “” Botanical Magazine”” and his own “” Botanical Register.””, Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images