FLO4636290: Group of chamarro reparting and checking their fishing nets, on the coast of the Mariana Islands (USA). Others sin. Illustration from Voyage Around the World (1824) by Louis de Freycinet (1779-1842). Lithography for the book: “” Galerie complete en tableaux fideles des peuples d'Amérique et d'Australie”” by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche (1785-1863), Meissen edition (Germany), 1835-1840. Naked Chamorro men and women mending and casting nets as they fish on the coast of the Mariana islands. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's “” Vollstaendige Voelkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen”” (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4636301: French explorers and botanist in the ruins of a chamarro site of stone pillars on Rota Island (Mariana Islands, USA). Illustration from Voyage Around the World (1824) by Louis de Freycinet (1779-1842). Lithography for the book: “” Galerie complete en tableaux fideles des peuples d'Amérique et d'Australie”” by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche (1785-1863), Meissen edition (Germany), 1835-1840. English explorers and botanist at the ruins of ancient Chamorro stone structures on the island of Rota, north of Guam. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's “” Vollstaendige Voelkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen”” (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4636338: Portrait of the chiefs of the Sandwich Islands (Hawai): in the centre, Kiaimoukou, Maui Island, on the left, a tattoo chef from Oahu Island, on the right, an officer from Kiamoukou. Illustration from Voyage Around the World (1824) by Louis de Freycinet (1779-1842). Lithography for the book: “” Galerie complete en tableaux fideles des peuples d'Amérique et d'Australie”” by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche (1785-1863), Meissen edition (Germany), 1835-1840. Chiefs of the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii): Kiaimoukou surnamed Cox, Chief of Maui Island (center), a tattooed chief of Oahu Island (left) and officer to Kiaimoukou (right). Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsch's “” Vollstaendige Voelkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen”” (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4636407: Tonga Tabu Island, Kingdom of Tonga. Lithography for the book: “” Galerie complete en tableaux fideles des peuples d'Amérique et d'Australie”” by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche (1785-1863), Meissen edition (Germany), 1835-1840. Tongatabu (Tongatapu) island in the kingdom of Tonga. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's “” Vollstaendige Voelkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen”” (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4636519: George Chapman, English dramatist, translator, and poet, died 1634. Copperplate engraving from William Richard's Portraits Illustrating Granger's Biographical History of England, London, 1792-1812. James Granger (1723-1776) was an English clergy, biographer, and print collector. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4636690: John Lamotte, alderman of London, 1577-1655. Copperplate engraving from William Richard's Portraits illustrating Granger's Biographical History of England, London, 1792-1812. James Granger (1723-1776) was an English clergy, biographer, and print collector. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637044: The beak crosses parrot. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Bulfinch, Eurasian bullfinch, Loxia pyrrhula, Pyrrhula pyrrhula. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637067: Field lark. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Skylark, Alauda arvensis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637221: Elegant avocette. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Foot avocet, Recurvirostra avocetta. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637243: The royal eagle. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Golden eagle, Falco chryseatos, Aquila chryseatos. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4636766: Paul Chamberlin, English physician, from an original drawing, 1658. Copperplate engraving by T. Trotter after an illustration by R. White from William Richard's Portraits Illustrating Granger's Biographical History of England, London, 1792-1812. James Granger (1723-1776) was an English clergy, biographer, and print collector. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4636872: Thomas Flatman, English poet and miniature painter, 1635-1688. Engraved by Godefroy from a miniature portrait by Flatman, 1661. Copperplate engraving from William Richard's Portraits Illustrating Granger's Biographical History of England, London, 1792-1812. James Granger (1723-1776) was an English clergy, biographer, and print collector. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4636878: Nathanael Richards, English dramatist and poet, fl. 1630-1654. Copperplate engraving from William Richard's Portraits Illustrating Granger's Biographical History of England, London, 1792-1812. James Granger (1723-1776) was an English clergy, biographer, and print collector. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637025: Thrush drains. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Misseltoe thrush, Mistle thrush, Turdus viscivorus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637177: Eyster pie. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Foot oystercatcher, Haematopus ostralegus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637220: Duck tadorne from Belon. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Shelduck, Anas tadorna, Tadorna tadorna. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4636723: Francis Bell or the Blessed Arthur Bell (1590-1643), English Franciscan martyr hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn. Copperplate engraving from William Richard's Portraits illustrating Granger's Biographical History of England, London, 1792Ð1812. James Granger (1723Ð1776) was an English clergy, biographer, and print collector. / Bridgeman Images

LRI4636745: Bolgia of the false prophets (song 20 from Hell, in the Divine Comedy)- Miniature, 14th century, Italian School, (14th century) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4636782: John Yonge, Ioannes Yongus, Irish Jesuit priest, died 1664, aged 75. Copperplate engraving from William Richard's Portraits Illustrating Granger's Biographical History of England, London, 1792-1812. James Granger (1723-1776) was an English clergy, biographer, and print collector. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4636790: Emery Hill, founder of Alms Houses and Free School in Rochester Row, Tothill Fields, Westminster, died 1677. Copperplate engraving by T. Trotter from William Richard's Portraits Illustrating Granger's Biographical History of England, London, 1792-1812. James Granger (1723-1776) was an English clergy, biographer, and print collector. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4636875: Sir Thomas Nott (1606-1681), royalist army officer, Gentleman Usher in Ordinary of the Privy Chamber to King Charles II. Copperplate engraving by R. White from William Richard's Portraits Illustrating Granger's Biographical History of England, London, 1792-1812. James Granger (1723-1776) was an English clergy, biographer, and print collector. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637187: Coot macrolls. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Common coot, Fulica atra. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. Drawn by William Samuel Howitt, a sporting and natural history artist. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637303: Montagu busard. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Ash coloured falcon, Falco cineraceus, Montague's harrier, Circus cineraceus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637336: The epeiche or the spike varies. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Greater spotted woodpecker, Picus major, Great spotted woodpecker, Dendrocopos major. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. / Bridgeman Images

LRI4637400: The Coot Hunt of Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (or Ferdinand IV of Naples) (1751-1825) on Lake Fusaro near Naples, Italy (Ferdinand IV hunting Coot on Lake Fusaro) Detail - Painting by Jacob Philipp Hackert dit Hackert d'Italie (1737-1807) 1783 Dim 146x227 cm Naples Museo Ionale di Capodimonte, Hackert, Jacob-Philippe (1737-1807) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637505: La fee de la cigue crushes a cigue in a mortar with its pestle, while a rabbit in a gown drinks poison near a dead frog - Eau forte by Charles Geoffroy (1819-1882), based on an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard dit J.J.J.Granville (1803-1847), for Les fleurs animees, 1847 - Hemlock flower fairy, Conium maculatum - Handcoloured steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from “” Les Fleurs Animees,”” 1847 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637289: Reed busard. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Moor buzzard, Falco aeruginosus, marsh harrier, Circus aeruginosus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637309: Ant torcol. Coloured copper engraving by George Graves, in British Ornithology, 1811. Wryneck, Jynx torquilla. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Graves from “British Ornithology”” 1811. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637774: The return of the fees of the flowers, a procession of fees approached the royal fee, assisted by putti with the wings of dragonfly and butterfly, in the foreground, a coleoptere holds a watering can and on a carpet are placed a secator and a rake - Eau forte by Charles Geoffroy (1819-1882), following an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard dit J.J.J.J.Granville (1803- 1847), for Les fleurs animees, 1847 - The return of the flower fairies - Handcoloured steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from “” Les Fleurs Animees”””, 1847 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4637814: The fee narcissus kneels on the edge of a lake, looking at its reflection, observed by a dragonfly and a lezard - Eau forte by Charles Geoffroy (1819-1882), from an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard dit J.J.Granville (1803-1847), for Les fleurs animees, 1847 - Narcissus flower fairy kneeling at the water's edge staring at her reflection - Handcoloured steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from “” Les Fleurs Animees”””, 1847 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4633440: Flower pots or gardeners: owned by Edouard Andre 1760, decorated by Vieillard 1754, owned by Baron Alphonse de Rothschild 1752, decorated by Vieillard 1759, painted by Charles-Nicolas Dodin 1760, painted by Bulidon 1764. Chromolithograph by Gillot of an illustration by Edouard Garnier from The Soft Paste Porcelain of Sevres, Maison Quinn, Paris, 1891. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4633535: Shaggy ink cap, lawyer's wig or shaggy mane, Coprinus comatus. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by William Hamilton Gibson from his book Our Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms. / Bridgeman Images

LRI4633929: The dance lesson (oil on canvas, ca. 1741), Longhi, Pietro (c.1701-85) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4633999: Persian artillery costumes, the guns mounted on the saddle of the camels. With the flag and Persian gold coins. Lithography for the book: “” Galerie complete en tableaux fideles des peuples d'Asie”” by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche (1785-1863), edition Meissen (Germany), 1835-1840. Persian camel artillery showing bomdiers firing cannons mounted on saddles. Persian flag and gold coins. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's “” Vollstaendige Voelkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen”” (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4634203: Quintessence - Artist's view of Quintessence, a dark form of energy that could accelerate the expansion of the universe, Dixon, Don (b.1951) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4633775: Red Roses (King Richard III). Handcoioured botanical illustration drawn and lithographed by Jane Elizabeth Giraud from The Flowers of Shakespeare, Day and Haghe, London, 1845. / Bridgeman Images