FLO4613224: Common stilt, Himantopus himantopus. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his own “Natural History of British Birds,” London, 1794-1819. Edward Donovan (1768-1837) was an Anglo-Irish amateur zoologist, writer, artist and engraver. He wrote and illustrated a series of volumes on birds, fish, shells and insects, opened his own museum of natural history in London, but later he fell on hard times and died penniless., Donovan, Edward (1768-1837) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4613309: Great crested grebe, Podiceps cristatus. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his own “Natural History of British Birds,” London, 1794-1819. Edward Donovan (1768-1837) was an Anglo-Irish amateur zoologist, writer, artist and engraver. He wrote and illustrated a series of volumes on birds, fish, shells and insects, opened his own museum of natural history in London, but later he fell on hard times and died penniless., Donovan, Edward (1768-1837) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4613194: Corn bunting, Miliaria calandra. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his own “Natural History of British Birds,” London, 1794-1819. Edward Donovan (1768-1837) was an Anglo-Irish amateur zoologist, writer, artist and engraver. He wrote and illustrated a series of volumes on birds, fish, shells and insects, opened his own museum of natural history in London, but later he fell on hard times and died penniless., Donovan, Edward (1768-1837) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4613385: Red-throated loon or diver, Gavia stellata. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his own “Natural History of British Birds,” London, 1794-1819. Edward Donovan (1768-1837) was an Anglo-Irish amateur zoologist, writer, artist and engraver. He wrote and illustrated a series of volumes on birds, fish, shells and insects, opened his own museum of natural history in London, but later he fell on hard times and died penniless., Donovan, Edward (1768-1837) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4613092: Wild swan (immature), Cygnus cygnus, with plumage in transition stage to white. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his own “Natural History of British Birds,” London, 1794-1819. Edward Donovan (1768-1837) was an Anglo-Irish amateur zoologist, writer, artist and engraver. He wrote and illustrated a series of volumes on birds, fish, shells and insects, opened his own museum of natural history in London, but later he fell on hard times and died penniless., Donovan, Edward (1768-1837) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4613181: Great auk, Pinguinus impennis, hunted to extinction by egg collectors in 1844. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his own “Natural History of British Birds,” London, 1794-1819. Edward Donovan (1768-1837) was an Anglo-Irish amateur zoologist, writer, artist and engraver. He wrote and illustrated a series of volumes on birds, fish, shells and insects, opened his own museum of natural history in London, but later he fell on hard times and died penniless., Donovan, Edward (1768-1837) / 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
FLO4609881: Hymnopterous insects (Encyclotus vitis, Encyclotus swederi) and brown or triangle strain (Cyperus fuscus). 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. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4610007: Coleoptere: violet carabus and belladonna plant. 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. Carabus exasperatus, Carabus violaceus, Portland Carabus, and deadly nightshade, Atropa belladonna. 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
FLO4610125: Butterfly limnephillus and plant of water aloe or false aloe or water pineapple. 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. Limnephilus elegans, Elegant Grannom or Caddis-fly, with fresh-water soldier, Stratiotes aloides. 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
FLO4610099: Insect: a variety of lepidoptere and a plant of slums. 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. Adactylus bennetii, Agdistis staticis, Sea-side Plume moth and green-and-gold carex, Carex limosa grass. 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
FLO4610181: Insect: lepidoptere, genus ephemeroptere with an aquatic yarrow plant u whorled myriophyll. 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. Acentropus garnonsii, Acentria nivea, Fale-caddis Water-veneer moth, with whorled milfoil, Myriophyllum verticillatum. 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
FLO4610314: Flowers of passion fruit or passion flowers, narcissus and nigella. Coloured copper engraving, illustration by Sydenham Edwards (1768-1819) for Conferences of Botanical, Botanical Garden of Lambeth (England), 1805, by William Curtis (1746-1799). Nectarium of the passionflower Passiflora (1), daffodil Narcissus (2), and love in a mist Nigella (3,4). 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
FLO4610535: Germination of radish seeds, common wheat and common barley. Coloured copper engraving, illustration by Sydenham Edwards (1768-1819) for Conferences of Botanical, Botanical Garden of Lambeth (England), 1805, by William Curtis (1746-1799). Germinating seed of the radish Raphanus sativus (1-7), wheat Triticumum aestivum (8) and barley Hordeum vulgare (9). 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