FLO4594361: Transit instruments for moving telescopes and other astronomical instruments. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J. Farey from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1820. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4594028: Ancient bronzes of warriors in armour from the collection of Peter Knight. (A, D) and in the British Museum (B, C). Copperplate engraving by Milton from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1820. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4594412: Presbyteres agaric (Agaricus personatus 1), russule heterophyll (Russula heterophylla 2), clavary amethyst (Clavaria amethystina 3) - Chromolithography based on a drawing by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1825-1914), published in “A Plain and Easy Account of British Fungi” (English), Robert Hardwicke Edition, London, 1862 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4594136: English reflecting circle by Edward Troughton, maker of astronomical instruments. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J. Farey Jr. from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1820. / Bridgeman Images
LRI4594649: Francis I of Medicis (Francesco I de Medici, 1541-1587) Grand Duke of Tuscany listening to the reading of a decree Wax sculpture of Giambologna (Giovanni da Bologna or Jean de Bologna or Boulogne, 1529-1608) Museo Nazionale del Bargello Florence, Giambologna (Giovanni da Bologna), (1529-1608) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4594727: Dress (Robe) of the reign of George I, 1714-1727, copied from one preserved from the era. She wear a flat hat decorated with ribbons, a dress with long train in floral stripes, tied at the bust with a ribbon. Based on The World, Addison's “Spectator,””” Watteau's pictures. Handcoloured lithograph from “” Costumes of British Ladies from the Time of William the First to the Reign of Queen Victoria”, London, Dickinson and Son, 1840. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4594765: Dress (Robe) of the reign of King George II, 1727-1760. She wear a pink hat with plumes and ribbons, a tight bodice with lace cuffs, and a full crinoline petticoat. Based on Thomas Jeffery's Collection of Dresses, Gray's Inn Journal, Spectator, Rose Bradwardine's dress in Sir Walter Scott's Waverley. Handcoloured lithograph from “” Costumes of British Ladies from the Time of William the First to the Reign of Queen Victoria”, London, Dickinson and Son, 1840. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4594805: Dress (Dress) of the reign of George IV, 1820-1830. Woman in feathered headdress, high-waisted gown and embroidered skirt, gloves and fan. Based on dresses preserved after the first Dressingroom held by the king, when hoops were abolished by command. Handcoloured lithograph from “” Costumes of British Ladies from the Time of William the First to the Reign of Queen Victoria”, London, Dickinson and Son, 1840. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4594492: Anglo-Norman Lady from the reign of King William I, the Conqueror, 1066-1087. She wears a long green full Dress (Dress) with long flared sleeves, a veil and gold diadem. Cotton MS (Nero C.4) in the British Museum. Handcoloured lithograph from “” Costumes of British Ladies from the Time of William the First to the Reign of Queen Victoria”, London, Dickinson and Son, 1840. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4594566: Dress (Dress) of the reign of King Edward IV, 1461-1470. She wears a tall conical headdress with long falling veil, and a fur-trimmed striped dress with open collar. Based on a Royal manuscript, Cotton Collection, Paradin, Froissart, Monstrelet. Handcoloured lithograph from “” Costumes of British Ladies from the Time of William the First to the Reign of Queen Victoria”, London, Dickinson and Son, 1840. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4594612: Horned HeAddress (Robe) of the 15th century, reign of Edward IV 1461-1483. She wears a blue dress with voluminous sleeves, lined with ermine. Based on a Royal manuscript, effigy of Beatrice, Countess of Arundel, satirical writings of John de Meum, Strutt's Habits. Handcoloured lithograph from “” Costumes of British Ladies from the Time of William the First to the Reign of Queen Victoria”, London, Dickinson and Son, 1840. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4594617: Dress (Robe) of the reign of Edward V and Richard III, 1483-1485. She wears a tall headdress with long veil, a furtrimmed mantle with wide collar over a striped dress. Seated in a medieval carved chair with lions on the arms. Based on portraits of Elizabeth Woodville, queen of Edward IV, description of the dress of Anne Neville, queen of Richard III, illuminated Royal manuscript 16F2, and effigy of Lady Peyton, Isleham Church, Cambridgeshire. Handcoloured lithograph from “” Costumes of British Ladies from the Time of William the First to the Reign of Queen Victoria”, London, Dickinson and Son, 1840. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4594517: Dress (Dress) of the reign of King Henry II, Curtmantle, 1154-1189. Long red ermine-lined mantle over long green dress, white veil and wimple. Based on an effigy of Queen Eleanora in Fontevraud Abbey, Miss Agnes Strickland's description of this dress, and Matthew Paris's Observations and Quotations. Handcoloured lithograph from “” Costumes of British Ladies from the Time of William the First to the Reign of Queen Victoria”, London, Dickinson and Son, 1840. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4594667: Dress (Dress) of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, 1558-1603. She wears a high lace ruff and cuffs, elaborately jeweled bodice, belt and headdress. Stubbs, Stow, portrait at Henham, described by Miss. Agnes Strickland, pictures and prints. Handcoloured lithograph from “” Costumes of British Ladies from the Time of William the First to the Reign of Queen Victoria”, London, Dickinson and Son, 1840. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4595166: Grape de Calmes grape, Vitis vinifera. Handcoloured stipple engraving of an illustration by George Brookshaw from his own “” Pomona Britannica,”” London, Longman, Hurst, etc., 1817. The quarto edition of the original folio edition published from 1804-1812. Brookshaw (1751-1823) was a successful cabinet maker who disappeared in the 1790s before returning as a flower painter with the anonymous “” New Treatise on Flower Painting,””” 1797. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4595598: Ortolan Sparrow - Variant of the ortolan bunting, Emberiza hortulana, or yellowhammer, Emberiza citrinella? (Green-headed bunting, Emberiza chlorocephala). From a specimen in the possession of Marmaduke Tunstall. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Peter Brown from his New Illustrations of Zoology. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4595613: Black-capped bulbul, Pycnonotus melanicterus, and unknown Sri Lankan warbler. (Yellow breasted flycatcher, Muscicapa melanictera, and green warbler, Motacilla singalensis.) Based on illustrations by Pieter de Bevere supplied by Gov. Joan Gideon Loten. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Peter Brown from his New Illustrations of Zoology. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4595888: The Tree Purple has double and white flowers. Rose mallow, Hibiscus syriacus. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz 'Precious and illuminated collection of the most beautiful and curious flowers, grown both in the gardens of China and in those of Europe, Paris, 1776. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4595626: Unknown birds of Sri Lanka - Unknown birds of Sri Lanka: Pink-coloured warbler, Motacilla caryophyllacea, and green wagtail, Motacilla viridis. Sri Lanka tussah silk moth, Antheraea cingalesa (Ceylon silk moth, Bombia paphia). After an illustration by Pieter de Bevere supplied by Governor Joan Gideon Loten. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Peter Brown from his New Illustrations of Zoology. / Bridgeman Images