FLO4686208: Parisian women, French Republic era, 1793. Handcoloured steel engraving by Hippolyte Pauquet after Louis-Leopold Boilly from the Pauquet Brothers' “” Modes et Costumes Historique”” (Historical Fashions and Costumes), Paris, 1865. Hippolyte (b. 1797) and Polydor Pauquet (b. 1799) ran a successful publishing house in Paris in the 19th century, specializing in illustrated books on costume, birds, butterflies, anatomy and natural history. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4689411: Rose Bengal Rose - Eau forte de Bessin, based on an illustration by Pierre Joseph Redoute (1759-1840), from Les Roses, 1817 - Old Blush rose, Rosa chinensis Old Blush (Rosa indica vulgaris) - Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Bessin after an illustration by Pierre-Joseph Redoute from “” Les Roses,” Firmin Didot, Paris, Paris, 1817, Redouté, Pierre Joseph (1759-1840) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4687830: Maltese fishing (common fishing). Lithograph after the illustration of Augusta Withers (1793-1877), published in the “Pomology Magazine” (1828-1830) by John Lindley (1795-1865). Malta peach, Prunus persica, variety of melting peach. Illustration by Mrs. Withers. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by S. Watts from J. Lindley's “” Pomological Magazine,” London, 1828-1930. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4686274: Paris fashions, reign of Louis XVIII, 1820. Handcoloured steel engraving by Hippolyte Pauquet after contemporary magazines from the Pauquet Brothers' “” Modes et Costumes Historique”” (Historical Fashions and Costumes), Paris, 1865. Hippolyte (b. 1797) and Polydor Pauquet (b. 1799) ran a successful publishing house in Paris in the 19th century, specializing in illustrated books on costume, birds, butterflies, anatomy and natural history. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4689552: Incense burnt before King Darius (550-486 BC) in Persepolis (Persia, Iran) - Lithograph from Le Livre des Parfums by Eugene Rimmel (1820-1887), France, 1870 - Incense burnt before King Darius at Persepolis - Lithograph from Eugene Rimmel's Le Livre des Parfums, Paris, 1870 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4687968: White imperative plum (common plum variety). Lithograph after the illustration of Augusta Withers (1793-1877), published in the “Pomology Magazine” (1828-1830) by John Lindley (1795-1865). White imperatrice plum, Prunus domestica. Illustration by Mrs. Withers. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by S. Watts from J. Lindley's “” Pomological Magazine,” London, 1828-1930. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4694264: Fossils: human skull of Furfooz cave (Belgium), auroch and bear skulls, skeleton of lazy giant and woolly rhinoceros - Chromolithography of Geology and Paleontology by Friedrich Rolle (1827-1887), excerpt from Natural History by Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert (1780-1860), 1886 - Fossil skl man from Furfoos cave, auroch Bos primigenius, cave bear Ursus spelaeus, giant sloth Megatherium cuvieri and woolly rhinoceros, Coelodonta antiquitatis (Rhinoceros tichorhinus) - Chromolithograph from Dr. Fr. Rolle's “” Geology and Paleontology”” section in Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert's “” Naturgeschichte,””” Schreiber, Munich, 1886 / Bridgeman Images