FLO4650855: Robin flycatcher, Muscicapa rubecola. Known only from a specimen in the Paris Museum. Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by William Swainson from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Flycatchers, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, 1836. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4650880: Lowland peltops, Peltops blainvillii (Fork-tailed gaper, Eurylaimus blainvilli). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by William Swainson from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Flycatchers, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, 1836. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4650901: Woodland kingfisher, Halcyon senegalensis (Rufous-vented kingfisher, Halcyon rufiventer). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars after William Swainson from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Birds of Western Africa, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, 1837. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4676836: Costume d'une jeune femme italian, 14th century - Young Italian woman, 14th century - She wears a large turban and her hair tied with white laces, a gold simar with tight bodice and full skirts and sleeves trimmed with ermine, pointed red shoes - From a painting by Francesco Vanni of 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, 1860, Mercuri, Paolo (1804-84) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4677003: Costumes des magistrats du tribunal de Siena (Italy), 14th century - Magistrates of the court in Siena, Italy, 14th century - From a miniature in a manuscript in 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
FLO4677015: Costumes des magistrats du tribunal de Siena (Italy), 14th century - Magistrates of the court in Siena, Italy, 14th century - From a miniature in a manuscript in 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
FLO4676644: Costume of a woman of the nobility of Venice, 13th century - Noblewoman of Venice, 13th century - She wears a green cape lined in scarlet, a white bonnet with white diadem, white robe with red and gold embroidery at the neck and arms - From a mosaic in the door of Saint Mark's Basilica, Venice - Handcolored 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
FLO4676860: Matron costume (midwife) from Siena (Italy), 14th century, always dressed in green - Woman of Siena, 14th century - She wears a violet peaked headdress with hanging veil, green dress with embroidered flowers and large furlined sleeves - From a painting by Francesco Vanni in the Academy of Fine Arts, Siena - Handcolored 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
FLO4676984: Military costume: a soldier with a small shield and an epee, 14th century - Soldier with small shield, sword and plumed helmet, from the Titius Livius manuscript in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, 14th century - Handcolored 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 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4677094: Costume d'un jeune homme français, 14th century, portrait suppose de Guillaume de Lorris (Loris) (ca. 1200-around 1238), poet et et auteur du Roman de la Rose - Costume of a young French man, 14th century - He wears a green tabard with squirrel-fur lined hanging sleeves, and pink stockings and cracows (pointed shoes) - From a manuscript in the Biblioteca Angelica, Rome - (According to Massard, this is Guillaume de Lorris, English poet and author of “” Roman de la Rose -””) 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
FLO4678554: A dismounted knight and one of the king's guards to King Henry VIII, 1525. The knight holds a mace or martel de fer, drapery lamboys covering half the breastplate. Guard in arming doublet with chainmail sleeves, carrying a spontoon shield and pike. Handcoloured lithograph by Maddocks after an illustration by S.R. Meyrick from Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick's A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4678729: Elegant Lupin or Lupin from Mexico - Engraved by S.Watts, from an illustration by Sarah Anne Drake (1803-1857), from the Botanical Register of Sydenham Edwards (1768-1819), England, 1833 - Mexican lupine, Lupinus elegans (Drooping-leaved lupine) - Engraving by S. Watts after an illustration by Miss Drake from Sydenham Edwards' “The Botanical Register,”” London, Ridgway, 1833, Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4678810: Variete of gompholobium (family of leguminous plants), native to Australia - Plate engraved by S.Watts, from an illustration by Sarah Anne Drake (1803-1857), from the Botanical Register of Sydenham Edwards (1768-1819), England, 1833 - Gompholobium confertum (Clustered burtonia, Burtonia conferta) - Engraving by S. Watts after an illustration by Miss Drake from Sydenham Edwards' “” The Botanical Register,” London, Ridgway, 1833, Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4678946: Orchid: variety of gongora, native to South America - Plate engraved by S.Watts, from an illustration by Sarah Anne Drake (1803-1857), from the Botanical Register of Sydenham Edwards (1768-1819), England, 1833 - Spotted gongora orchid, Gongora maculata - Engraving by S. Watts after an illustration by Miss Drake from Sydenhake from Sydenhake Am Edwards' “” The Botanical Register,” London, Ridgway, 1833, Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4677236: A Middle Ages man plays billiards with a woman who lays chalk on the tail she uses (billiards was only popular in the 19th century) - Lithograph based on an illustration by J.E. Rogers, from Passe temps actuels de l'Engleterre happy, by Francis Cowley Burnand (1836-1917), 1873 - Medieval man playing a game of snooker (pool) while a woman chalks her cue and watches (Snooker was not popular until the 19th century) - Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by J. E. Rogers from Francis Cowley Burnand's “” Present Pastimes of Merrie England, Cassell, London, 1873 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4677333: Fashionable men and women playing the parlour game called the Statue. When one is condemned to be the statue, she is placed in the centre of the room and everyone else has the right to pose her in any position they desire.” Handcoloured engraving by Gatine from Pierre de la Mesanger's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4677344: Woman wearing headdress and dress featuring extravagent pleating and flouncing. Pleated collars, flounces (falbalas) and ruffs (chicories), have never been more in fashion than today. The art of pressing has been raised to the point of perfection. The elegantes no longer send their linen to Neuilly: the coarse hands of the peasants tear the fabric they launder. The delicate hand of a Parisienne is required for fine linen. It costs 6 sous to launder a dress, and 50 to press it.”” Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesanger's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4677414: One must suffer for beauty. A hairdresser on stilts pulls a woman's hair to the ceiling in the Chinese style. “” The hairstyle a la Chinese is definitely a major makeover. All the hair from the forehead to the nape is collected on the top of the head, then twisted and tied.” Illustration by Jean-Baptiste Isabey. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesanger's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4677473: Fashionable people playing the parlour game of Bridge of Love. For this forfeit, the man kneels on the floor and the lady who nominated him sits on his back. He carries her around in a circle, and must stop before all the knights, to allow them to use their right to embrace the traveler.” Illustration by Dumailly. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesanger's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4677673: Street entertainer performing on a horn and violin. After removing his huge glasses from his nose, the old geezer blows on his horn (sarbacane) and plays the violin, grimacing all the time.” Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesanger's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4677213: A man of the Middle Ages flies in a boat, on a lake with water lilies, accompanied by a little girl dipping her hand in the water - Lithograph from an illustration by J.E. Rogers, from Passe temps actuels de l'Engleterre heureuse, by Francis Cowley Burnand (1836-1917), 1873 - Medieval man fishing from a boat in a waterlily pond accompanied by a young girl with her hand in the water - Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by J. E. Rogers from Francis Cowley Burnand's “” Present Pastimes of Merrie England, Cassell, London, 1873 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4677216: A couple of the Middle Ages dance to the sound of the clarinet (invented in the 18th century) - Lithography from an illustration by J.E. Rogers, from Passe temps actuels de l'Engleterre heureuse, by Francis Cowley Burnand (1836-1917), 1873 - Medieval couple dancing to a musician playing a clarinet (invented in the 18th century) - Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by J. E. Rogers from Francis Cowley Burnand's “” Present Pastimes of Merrie England, Cassell, London, 1873 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4677231: Middle Ages men smoke pipe and drink alcohol in front of the fireplace - Lithograph from an illustration by J.E. Rogers, from Passe temps actuels de l'Engleterre heureuse, by Francis Cowley Burnand (1836-1917), 1873 - Medieval men smoking a pipe and drinking in front of the parlour fire - Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by J. E. Rogers from Francis Cowley Burnand's “” Present Pastimes of Merrie England, Cassell, London, 1873 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4677252: Middle Ages young men play cricket in front of a fortified wall, they wear modern equipment (gloves and protections) - Lithography from an illustration by J.E. Rogers, from Passe temps actuels de l'Engleterre heureuse, by Francis Cowley Burnand (1836-1917), 1873 - Medieval youth at bat in a game of cricket on a green in front of a walled town, they wear modern cricket pads and protective gloves - Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by J. E. Rogers from Francis Cowley Burnand's “” Present Pastimes of Merrie England, Cassell, London, 1873 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4677639: Woman balancing on a candlestick on a table, while a child walks on its hands. Later, Madame Herculanus fixes two anchors in curling papers to her hair, and lifts an anvil with her hands as if picking up a hairpin.” Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesanger's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4679713: Roman mythology: Ceres, goddess of agriculture, harvests and fertility, holding a sickle and a bushel of wheat - Eau forte by Jacques Louis Constant Lacerf, based on an illustration by Leonard Defrance (1735-1805), extracted from mythology in fabulous prints or divine figures, circa 1820 - Ceres, Roman goddess of the harvest and agriculture, in toga and laurel crown, with scythe and bushel of wheat - Handcoloured copperplate engraving engraved by Jacques Louis Constant Lacerf after illustrations by Leonard Defrance from “” Mythology in Prints or Figures of Fabled Gods””, Chez P. Blanchard, Paris, c 1820 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4677861: Fashionable dancers performing La Trenis, a country dance section in the popular quadrille created by the French dance master Trenitz. Poor celebrity! The mania for pirouettes made him deranged, and he later died in Charenton asylum, also home to the Marquis de Sade.” Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesanger's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4678006: A gentleman with a whip controls four dogs dancing on their hind legs dressed in the latest fashions on stage. “The dog show continues to attract crowds at the Theatre Montansier in Versailles.” Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesanger's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4678119: Louise of Savoy (Savoie), mother of King Francis I of France, 1476-1532. After a vellum manuscript in the King's Library. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Gatine after an illustration by Louis Marie Lante from Pierre de la Mesanger's “Costumes des femmes celebres” (Costumes of Famous Women), Paris, 1827. / Bridgeman Images