FLO4576457: Muscadier and clove - Mace and nutmeg tree, Myristica fragrans, and clove spice tree, Syzygium aromatium, 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by Christiane Henriette Dorothea Westermayr from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1792. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4576520: Kalmyk nomads preparing to migrate - dismantling ghers, loading wagons near a tomb 1, and typical gher life with women milking cow, preparing a cow hide, playing men draughts cows, men play the game of Lady). Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4576527: Rambutan - Ramboutan or scalp lychee - Nephelium lappaceum, with branch, leaf, flower, fruit, and peeled fruit. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4576580: Village life of the Batswana people, South Africa, modern Botswana. (Scene in a village in Botswana The villagers can be seen with leaf parasols cooking in front of wooden houses and a corn granary. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4576627: Southern elephant seal - Southern sea elephant or austral - Mirounga leonina (Phoca proboscidea) basking on King Island, Tasmania. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4576925: Main plaza or Zocalo in Mexico City, circa 1800 (Zocalo or Constitution Square, in Mexico around 1800, with the equestrian statue of King Charles VI of Spain, the porphyry square and the vice king's palace, the cathedral and the construction site without the Moorish style). With equestrian statue of King Charles VI of Spain, gated square paved with porphyry stones, vice-roy's palace 1, cathedral 2 and part under construction in the Moorish style 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4576970: Tawny rajah butterfly - Charases bernardus - Charaxes bernardus (Papilio bernardus) on a camellia, Camellia japonica. Taken from Edward Donovan's “An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of China,”” 1798. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4576818: Peruvian giant Basilio Huaylas, 7 ft at age 24. A native American from Ica in the south, he was exhibited in the capital Lima in 1792. Contrasted with an ordinary man holding a musical instrument, the arpa indigena, or indigenous harp. From Richard Phillips' “” Present State of Peru,”” 1805. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4576903: Ruins of the ancient town of Sagunto, Spain, circa 1800. Part of the theatre 1, and ruins of the citadel 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4576764: Cup-shaped polyps, magnified under a microscope, 18th century. Polyps attached to pondweed 1 and a snail 7. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4576938: Marine fossil animals, Pentacrinites (pentacrin fossil). Originally called medusa palm, Helmintholithus portentosus. Extinct genus of crinoid from the mid Triassic. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4576972: Russian hunting horn band. Formed by the Bohemian chamber musician J.A. Maresch for Prince Kilirovich Narishkin in 1750. It comprised 40 musicians each playing a single tone in a D major chord according to a simple rhythmic notation. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4577830: Dyeers: one quenches the fabric in a red dye tank, others pump water to fill the rinse tank - Dyer dying bolts of fabric in a barrel, while other workers pump water in a large vat to rinse cloth. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4577897: Spring Omphalodes or Printaniere Little Borage - Creeping navelwort, Omphalodes verna (blue navelwort, Cynoglossum omphalodes). Handcolured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Curtis' The Botanical Magazine, Lambeth Marsh, London, 1786., Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4578092: Large bright yellow savannah flower, native to Jamaican and Santo Domingo. Larger savanna flower with vivid yellow flower, a native of the savannas of Jamaica and St. Domingo. Echites suberecta.Handcolored copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis's “” Botanical Magazine”” 1790-1800., Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4578141: Blue and white linen, with pale blue flowers, native to Europe. Blue and white flax with pale blue flowers. A native of Europe. Linum ascyrifolium. Handcolored copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis's “” Botanical Magazine”” 1790-1800., Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images