FLO4597702: Sunbittern, Eurypyga helias, purple swamphen, Porphyrio porphyrio, and common moorhen, Gallinula chloropus. Handcoloured engraving on steel by Fournier after a drawing by Edouard Travies from Richard's “New Edition of the Complete Works of Buffon,”” Pourrat Freres, Paris, 1837. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4593887: Pneumatics of the Girandoni air rifle showing the air reservoir in the butt and lead bullets in a magazine, and loading mechanism. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1820. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4594049: Ancient Roman armour, helmet, breastplate, shield and weapons from the British Museum, Bartoli's Triumphal Arches and Sir William Hamilton's vases. 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
FLO4594063: Artillery: Aries or wooden battering ram and catapult used by Lord Heathfield at the siege of Gibraltar. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1820. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4594571: Dress (Dress) of the reign of King Richard II, 1377-1399. She carries the king's badge or cognizance, a white hart with a crown of gold on its neck. Her fur-trimmed dress is sky blue with white embroidered lilies, part of the king's crest. Based on Caxton, Froissart, Gower, Confessio Amantis, Chaucer. 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
FLO4594898: Mr. John Cooper as Clement Cleveland in “The Pirate” at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Robert Cooper after a painting by Michael William Sharp. From D. Terry's “” British Theatrical Gallery,” London, Henry Berthoud Jr., 1825. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4594977: Miss Felicite Hullin, dancer, in the ballet “” La Paysanne Supposee”” at the Italian Opera House Haymarket. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Robert Cooper after a painting by Frederic de Waldeck. From D. Terry's “” British Theatrical Gallery,” London, Henry Berthoud Jr., 1825. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4594793: Dress (Dress) of the reign of George III, 1760-1820. Woman in feathered headdress, gown of purple silk with lace sleeves, large hooped petticoats with bunches of flowers. Wardrobes preserved of the court of Queen Charlotte. Prints and recollections of the style, and the panier hoop still in the possession of a lady. 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
FLO4594957: Miss Harriet Constance Smithson as Miss Dorrillon in “Wives as They Were and Maids as They Are” the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Robert Cooper after a painting by George Clint. From D. Terry's “” British Theatrical Gallery,” London, Henry Berthoud Jr., 1825. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4595098: Peach varieties, Prunus persica: Duke of Marlborough's Peach, blossom, Rumbullion Peach and segment showing stone and flesh. 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
FLO4595120: Currant varieties: Blackcurrant, Ribes nigrum; Dutch redcurrant, Ribes rubrum; and white currant, Ribes glandulosum. 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
FLO4595252: Pear varieties, Pyrus communis: Winter Swan's Egg and Easter Bergamot. 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
FLO4595550: Sporophile small singer and big African beak - Cuban grassquit, Tiaris canorus, and unknown African grosbeak. (Brown-cheeked grosbeak, Loxia canora, and black-bellied grosbeak, Loxia afra or Loxia melanogastra). From the collection of Marmaduke Tunstall. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Peter Brown from his New Illustrations of Zoology. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4595255: Different kinds of figs, fig fruit - Fig varieties, Ficus carica: Brown Malta, White Marseilles, Purple Fig and Brown Naples or Italian Fig. 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
FLO4595112: Peach varieties, Prunus persica: Bourdine, blossom, leaf, and Nivette or Bel de Vitry. 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
FLO4595383: Cherry varieties, Prunus avium: the Bleeding-Heart, Ox-Heart and MapleHeart. 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