FLO4688590: Hunters of San Francisco Bay, 19th century. Both wear topknots and earrings, one in a loincloth preparing to fire an arrow, the other with arrows in a quiver made from an animal skin. After Louis Choris' “” Cholovonis a la chasse”” from “” Picturesque Journey Around the World,”” 1822. Handcoloured lithograph from James Cowles Prichard's Natural History of Man, Balliere, London, 1855. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4688662: Chelsea Pensioner and Greenwich Pensioner. Army veteran in the redcoat uniform of the Chelsea Hospital holding a pipe, and Navy veteran in the blue uniform of Greenwich Hospital with pegleg holding a tankard. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from William Henry Pyne's The World in Miniature: England, Scotland and Ireland, Ackermann, 1827. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4688892: Yellow bramble rose, Rosa lutea, from Robert Tyas' “Queen of Flowers, or Memoirs of the Rose,” London, 1840. Unsigned handcoloured lithograph, but probably by James Andrews. Little is known about the artist James Andrews (1801 ~ 1876) apart from his work. This gifted artist taught flower-painting to young ladies and published a treatise “” Lessons in Flower Painting”” in 1835. Blunt calls him “” an illustrator of sentimental flower books,””” but admits that he was “” very talented.”” His signature JA can be found in many botanical gift books for publisher Robert Tyas from “” The Sentiment of Flowers”” (1836) to “” Flowers from Foreign Lands”” (1853). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4688896: Double white rose, Rosa alba, from Robert Tyas' “” Queen of Flowers, or Memoirs of the Rose,”” London, 1840. Unsigned handcoloured lithograph, but probably by James Andrews. Little is known about the artist James Andrews (1801 ~ 1876) apart from his work. This gifted artist taught flower-painting to young ladies and published a treatise “” Lessons in Flower Painting”” in 1835. Blunt calls him “” an illustrator of sentimental flower books,””” but admits that he was “” very talented.”” His signature JA can be found in many botanical gift books for publisher Robert Tyas from “” The Sentiment of Flowers”” (1836) to “” Flowers from Foreign Lands”” (1853). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4689189: Portrait medallions of King Louis XVI of France (blue), Marie Antoinette (blue), Duke of Bridgewater (black), Edmund Burke (pink) and William Pitt (blue). Chromolithograph by W. Griggs from Frederick Rathone's Old Wedgwood, the Decorative or Artistic Ceramic Work Produced by Josiah Wedgwood, Quaritch, London, 1898. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4689315: Coffee pot showing the infant academy, Chocolate pot with acanthus foliage, and Coffee pot with women and children. Chromolithograph drawn by Grivell and lithographed by Parrot et Co. from Frederick Rathone's Old Wedgwood, the Decorative or Artistic Ceramic Work Produced by Josiah Wedgwood, Quaritch, London, 1898. / Bridgeman Images
LRI4689342: Etruscan civilization: oinochoe de bucchero noir - From Chiusi, necropole de Fonte Rotella Dim 41,5 cm 6th century BC (Etruscan art: bucchero oenochoe) 6th century BC Florence, Museo Archeologico, inv 3190 - Etruscan art: black bucchero otelinochoe from Chiusi necropolis of Rote La. 41.5 cm. 6th century BC. Museum of Archaeology, inv 3190, Florence, Italy, Etruscan, (6th century BC) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4689446: Victorian women, in a botanical greenhouse with exotic plants - Engraving by Gabry, from The Book of Perfumes by Eugene Rimmel (1820-1887), England, 1865 - Victorian women in a botanical hothouse - Woodcut engraving by Lambert from Eugene Rimmel's The Book of Perfumes, London, Chapman and Hall, 1865 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4689559: Dispensary and laboratory of an Arab perfumer chemist of the 12th century - Chromolithography of a Persian manuscript of the 12th century, from Le Livre des Parfums by Eugene Rimmel (1820-1887), France, 1870 - Dispensary and laboratory of an Arab perfumer chemist of the 12th century, From a Persian manuscript of the era - Chromolithograph from Eugene Rimmel's Le Livre des Parfums, Paris, 1870 / Bridgeman Images
LRI4689267: Etruscan civilization: “” the deity of war Laran”” Bronze sculpture, 450-440 BC Dim 33 cm (the etruscan god of war Laran, bronze sculpture) 450-440 BC Florence, Museo Archeologico, inv 586 - Etruscan civilization: Bronze statuette of Laran, god of war, 450-440 BC. 33 cm. Museum of Archaeology, inv 586, Florence, Italy, Etruscan, (5th century BC) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4689398: Frankfurt Rosier - Eau forte de Bessin, based on an illustration by Pierre Joseph Redoute (1759-1840), from Les Roses, 1817 - Frankfort rose or Empress Josephine rose, Rosa francofurtana (Rosa turbinata) - Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Bessin after an illustration by Pierre-Joseph Redoute from “” Les Roses,” Firmin Dimot, Paris, 1817, Redouté, Pierre Joseph (1759-1840) / Bridgeman Images