FLO4675836: Design for a dagger sheath designed by Holbein. The characters are a king, a queen and a warrior, involuntarily accompany Death in the dance. The king's despair, the downfall of the queen accompanied by her little dog, the terror of the soldier who hears the drum of death, are portrayed with veracity and spirit of equality. Hand-coloured engraving by Christian Von Mechel (or Chretien de Mechel, 1737-1817) in “The Triumph of Death”” based on original drawings by Hans Holbein the Young (1497-1543), 1860. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4675939: Boniface, Duke of Tuscany - Boniface III, Margrave of Tuscany (c 985-1052) - He wears a gold hat decorated with precious stones, green chlamys bordered in gold, blue tunic, red stockings with gold bands and shoes - The throne is yellow with cushions and footrest - Illustration taken from a manuscript of Donizo's “” Vita Mathildis” - Handcoloured” - Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from “” Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries,”” Levy Fils, Paris, 1860, Mercuri, Paolo (1804-84) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4675957: Costume d'une femme de la noblesse italian, 14th century - Costume of an Italian noblewoman, 14th century - She wears a veil, a blue dress trimmed with fur and edged with gold, over a pink dress - From a painting in the Academy of Fine Arts, Siena - Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from “” Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries,”” Levy Fils, Paris, 1861, Mercuri, Paolo (1804-84) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4675962: Uniforms of Italian soldiers, 14th century - The wear tunics in Siena brown with coats of arms of Saint Mark (gold lion on red field), over suits of armour - The soldier with the banner of the church (two keys on a red field) wears a white helmet decorated with silver - From a fresco by Spinello Aretino in the Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, depicting Pope Alexander III presenting the Doge of Venice with a sword to fight Frederick Barbarossa - Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from “” Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries,”” Levy Fils, Paris, 1861, Mercuri, Paolo (1804-84) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4675979: Vestment of an Italian cardinal, 14th century - From a painting of the Last Judgment by Ambrogio Lorenzetti in the Academy of Fine Arts, Siena - He wears a red hat, large red cape with hood, white surplice, blue cassock and red shoes - Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from “” Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries,”” Levy Fils, Paris, 1861, Mercuri, Paolo (1804-84) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4676017: Tribunal des marchands, 15th century - Merchant tribunal, Italy, 15th century - The magistrates are seated at top, scribes or notaries stand in the pit, and merchants outside the barrier - From a miniature painting by Sano di Pietro in the “” Statutes of Merchants,””” Siena library - Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from “” Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries,”” Levy Fils, Paris, 1861, Mercuri, Paolo (1804-84) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4676045: Costume d'un senateur venitien (Italy), 15th century - Venetian senator, 15th century - He wears a black toque, a velvet simar trimmed with fur on the sleeves, and black velvet stole - From a miniature painting by Piero della Francesca - Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from “” Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries,” Levy Fils, Paris, 1861, Mercuri, Paolo (1804-84) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4676049: Costume d'une dame de suite d'Alienor (Eleonore) du Portugal (1434-1467) (dame d'honneur ou dame de compagnie) - Lady in Waiting to Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress - She wears her hair tied in gold, a white blouse, blue corset and sleeves open at the shoulder, white taffeta dress, and pink cape bordered with green - From a fresco by Pinturicchio and Raphael in Siena - Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from “” Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries,”” Levy Fils, Paris, 1861, Mercuri, Paolo (1804-84) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4676095: Maximilian I of Habsburg (1459-1519), Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, in suit of armour and plumed helmet, mounted on an armoured horse with caparison with the coat of arms of Austria (five golden quail) and the Archdukedom of Austria (silver fess on a red field) - After a colored woodcut by Hans Gkmair, 1508 - Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from “” Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries,”” Levy Fils, Paris, 1861, Mercuri, Paolo (1804-84) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4676115: Costume of a Spanish noble woman, 15th century - Costume of a Spanish noble woman, 15th century - From a manuscript of “” Office of Our Lady”” in the Spanish court - She wears a white embroidered headdress, and a full cape over a dress - Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from “” Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries,”” Levy Fils, Paris, 1861, Mercuri, Paolo (1804-84) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4676124: Costume of a Spanish nobleman, 15th century - Costume of a Spanish nobleman, 15th century - From a manuscript “” Office of Our Lady,”” in the Spanish court - He wears a large hat, a sleeveless simar (cassock) over a pink doublet, brown leather belt and purse, and red shoes - Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from “” Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries,”” Levy Fils, Paris, 1861, Mercuri, Paolo (1804-84) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4661890: Spiny lycoperdan (Lycoperdon echinatum,) and warty scleroderma (Scleroderma verrucosum), edible. Chromolithography of C.Krause, based on an illustration by Fritz Leuba (1848-1910), in Les champignons edibles et les especes veneneuses with which they could be confused, published by Delachaux and Niestle, in Neuchatel, Switzerland, in 1890. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4661966: English dandies and belles in fancy-dress costume at a ball. Tom and Jerry larking at a Masquerade Supper at the Opera House. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Isaac Robert Cruikshank and George Cruikshank from Pierce EGAN's Life in London, Sherwood, Jones, London, 1823. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4662020: English Georgian ladies seeing an old woman fortune teller in a garret. Tom and Jerry catching Kate and Sue on the Sly having their Fortunes told. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Isaac Robert Cruikshank and George Cruikshank from Pierce EGAN's Life in London, Sherwood, Jones, London, 1823. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4662049: English dandies slumming it with Lascars, sailors, prostitutes, bargirls and low life at a public house in the East End of London. Tom, Jerry and Logic among the unsophisticated Sons and Daughters of Nature at All Max in the East. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Isaac Robert Cruikshank and George Cruikshank from Pierce EGAN's Life in London, Sherwood, Jones, London, 1823. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4662075: English dandies playing whist with cheating cardsharps at a London house, 1820. The gent at the mirror signalling to his fellow scam artists about the mark's hand. Tom and Jerry among the Swell Broad Coves. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Isaac Robert Cruikshank and George Cruikshank from Pierce EGAN's Life in London, Sherwood, Jones, London, 1823. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4662094: English dandies meeting the cast of an opera in the Green Room at Drury Lane Theatre. Tom and Jerry introduced to the Characters in Don Giovanni. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Isaac Robert Cruikshank and George Cruikshank from Pierce EGAN's Life in London, Sherwood, Jones, London, 1823. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4662104: English Georgian dandies and ladies reeling to a military band at a pleasure garden, 1820. Tom, Jerry and Logic making the most of an Evening at Vauxhall. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Isaac Robert Cruikshank and George Cruikshank from Pierce EGAN's Life in London, Sherwood, Jones, London, 1823. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4662114: English dandies and ladies at an art exhibition, 1820. Tom and Jerry at the Exhibition of Pictures at the Royal Academy. A Shilling Well Laid Out. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Isaac Robert Cruikshank and George Cruikshank from Pierce EGAN's Life in London, Sherwood, Jones, London, 1823. / Bridgeman Images