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GIA4729411: Gesler's Hat - Bailiff Hermann Gessler erects a post in Altdorf and hangs his hat on it, forcing the inhabitants to bow in front. Guillaume Tell (14th century) is denonce for not having greeted the hat and is condemned to pierce with a crossbow tile an apple placed on his son's head, Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4726497: Fruits of mango, mango, oboto or djimbo, sapotillier or corossol and attract it or apple cinnamon. Coloured copper engraving, based on an illustration by Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811), in Encyclopedie d'histoire naturelle, published in Vienna (Austria), 1816. Mango, Garcinia mangostana, mammee, Mammea africana, Sapodilla, Achras sapota, Sugar apple, Annona squamosa. Handcolored copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration from G. T. Wilhelm's “” Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte”” (Encyclopedia of Natural History), Vienna, 1816. Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian clergy and naturalist in Augsburg, where the first edition was published. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4610704: Pericarp of parakeet grass (or wadding) and section of the fruit of domestic apple tree Coloured copper engraving, illustration by Sydenham Edwards (1768-1819) for Botanical Conferences, Lambeth Botanical Garden, England, 1805, by William Curtis (1746-1799). Seed vessel pericarpium of the milkweed Asclepias syriaca (1-2) and apple Malus domestica (3-4). Handcoloured copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards for William Curtis's “” Lectures on Botany, as delivered in the Botanic Garden at Lambeth,”” 1805. Edwards (1768-1819) was the artist of thousands of botanical plates for Curtis' “” Botanical Magazine”” and his own “” Botanical Register.””, Edwards, Sydenham Teast (c.1768-1819) / Bridgeman Images
HFE4441541: Pelargonium x/Pelargonium with fragrant foliage 'Concolour Lace' (hazelnut scent)/Pelargonium odoratissimum/Pelargonium odorant (apple fragrance)/Lobularia maritima/Silver basket/Alysse fragrant/Heliotropium arborescens/Perou Heliotrope/Petunia x hybrida/Petunia x/Petunida A Sonata / Bridgeman Images
FLO4573934: Ceylon satinwood (Ceylon lemon tree), Chloroxylon swietenia, vulnerable 1, and cashew nut (Anacardier, apple mahogany), Western Anacardium 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1795. / Bridgeman Images