FLO4690623: Breakfast Room of the Old Bell Inn, Scarborough. Guests drinking coffee, reading newspapers, eating breakfast in a Regency room. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Thomas Rowlandson, aquatint by J. Bluck, after a sketch by J. Green from Poetical Sketches of Scarborough, Ackermann, London, 1813., Rowlandson, Thomas (1756-1827) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4690345: The skeleton of Death joins an irate father as he tries to stop his only daughter eloping with a soldier in a stagecoach to Gretna Green. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Thomas Rowlandson from The English Dance of Death, Ackermann, London, 1816., Rowlandson, Thomas (1756-1827) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4690269: The skeleton of Death with hourglass comes for the sick man as he eats gruel at the dining table with his drinking buddies in front of the fireplace. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Thomas Rowlandson from The English Dance of Death, Ackermann, London, 1816., Rowlandson, Thomas (1756-1827) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4690316: The skeleton of Death burns down a house with torches as a family tries to save its treasures and put out the fire with buckets of water from the pond. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Thomas Rowlandson from The English Dance of Death, Ackermann, London, 1816., Rowlandson, Thomas (1756-1827) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4702200: Liveche (Ligustium levistium) or mountain ache. Hand-coloured copper engraving from an illustration by James Sowerby. Excerpt from the book of William Woodville and Sir William Jackson Hooker “” Botanique medicinale”” 1832. The tireless Sowerby (1757-1822) drew more than 2500 plants for Smith Mammoth “English Botanical”” (1790-1814) and 440 mushrooms for colourful representations of English mushrooms” (1797) among many other works., Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4702412: Anglo Saxon agriculture: four-wheel wagon 107, two-wheel wagon 108, plough 109, shovel, scythe and hammer 110, sickle, rake and fork 111, harvest cart 112, and farm workers threshing grain. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Paul Weindl from Robert von Spalart's “” Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages,””” Chez Collignon, Metz, 1810. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4702562: Spears of the Franks, 168,169, crossbow 170, arrow 171, flails or chain maces 172-174, hatchet 175, and Morgenstern (morning star) or spiked club 176. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4702680: King Henry I of Germania (or of Saxony, known as the Oiseleur, 867-936) and Henry II of the Holy Empire, known as the lame or the Saint (973-1024) - King Henry I the Fowler, King of East Francia, and Henry II, Saint Henry, Holy Roman Emperor, on thrones with crown, sword and orb, and a Norman chapel. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4702432: Anglo Saxon grape press 114, altars 115, 116, and censers (incense burners) 117, 118. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's “” Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages,”” Chez Collignon, Metz, 1810. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4702514: Crowns of Clovis, Theodoric, Clotilde and Ultrogotha, 144-147, of the Franks 148,149,152-156, of Chlothar I and Fredegund 150,151, of Charlemagne 157-160, Childeric I's signet ring, 161, and Childeric's sword 162. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4702615: Portal of the Abbey of St. Germain de Pres, Paris, with statues of the Frankish king Clovis, and his children Ingomer, Chlodomer, Childebert, Chlothar, Clotilde and Theuderic. Or Saint Germain, Pepin, Bertrade, Charlemagne, Carloman, Childebert, Ultrogotha and Clotaire. From Bernard de Montfaucon's Les Monumens De La Monarchy Francoise. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4702826: The keep of the Norman castle at Hedingham, Essex 252, and the church at St. Botolph's Priory, in Colchester, Essex 253. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4702921: The Rittershaal or Knights' Hall in Kleve castle, Germany, demolished in 1771. The hall was 126 feet long by 54 feet wide and had a barrel-vault ceiling. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4702936: Twenty masked and costumed musicians and dancers emerge from four monstrous heads. Dance of the Nations, part of the celebrations of the birth of Freiderich, Duke of Wurttemberg, 1616. Taken from Delineation und Abbildung aller furstlichen Aufzug und Ritterspielen by Esaias von Hulsen, 1617. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4703127: Two perfect knights's mountaintop fortress castles in Austria. (Hochosterwitz and Kreuzenstein?) Copied from Matthaeus Merian's Topographie von Osterreich, 1649. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4703244: Orders of Chivalry: chain of the Order of the Golden Fleece 369, chain of the Order of Saint Michael 370, chain of the Order of the Holy Spirit 371, cross of the Order of St. Ludwig 372 and cross of the Order of Mount Carmel 373. Orders of Chivalry: chain of the Order of the Golden Fleece 369, chain of the Order of Saint Michael 370, chain of the Order of the Holy Spirit 371, cross of the Order of St. Ludwig 372 and cross of the Order of Mount Carmel 373. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4703258: Rider performing carousel exercises with lance, sword and pistol, jousting at a ring and a dummy head. Copied from Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere's Ecole de Cavalerie, 1730. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4703288: A procession with riders mounted on a unicorn, a goat and a horse wearing heraldic colours. The male and female riders hold lances with banners. Part of the celebration of the birth of Freiderich. Taken from Delineation und Abbildung aller furstlichen Aufzug und Ritterspielen by Esaias von Hulsen, 1617. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4705570: German nobleman 1577 and a countess of Holland and Zeeland 1600. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's “” Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages,”” Vienna, 1811. Illustration based on Thomas Jefferys Collection of Dresses of Different Nations, Antient and Modern. After the Designs of Holbein, Van Dyke, Hollar, and others, London, 1757. / Bridgeman Images