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FLO4603605: Cistus of Crete - Gum cistus, Cistus creticus. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret and Chamberet's “” La Flore Medicale,”” Paris, Panckoucke, 1830., Turpin, Pierre Jean Francois (1775-1840) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4603699: Large lobelia or siphilitic lobelia - Blue cardinal's flower, Lobelia syphilitica. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret and Chamberet's “” La Flore Medicale,”” Paris, Panckoucke, 1830., Turpin, Pierre Jean Francois (1775-1840) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4603722: White or common marrube - Common horehound, Marrubium vulgare. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret and Chamberet's “” La Flore Medicale,”” Paris, Panckoucke, 1830., Turpin, Pierre Jean Francois (1775-1840) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4603835: Black mustard or black seneve - Mustard, Sinapis nigra. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret and Chamberet's “” La Flore Medicale,”” Paris, Panckoucke, 1830., Turpin, Pierre Jean Francois (1775-1840) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4605620: Juniper or common juniper, sometimes called the peteron or petrot (Juniperus communis) - Strong water by William Clarke to illustrate “” Medical Botanical, Description of the Medicinal Plants of London, Edinburgh and Dublin” by John Stephenson and James Morss Churchill, published in London by John Churchill in 1831 / Bridgeman Images
TEC4604341: Place Vendome in Paris. The one we know today dates back to 1699 and was designed by Jules Hardouin Mansart. And it was only with the piercing of the Rue de la Paix that the Vendome Column was built in 1806 by Napoleon to the glory of the winners of Austerlitz. An admirer of Roman Antiquity, the Emperor took as model the Trajane column raised in Rome and erige his statue of Napoleon imperator by Chaudet. After the regime changes, Napoleon III installed a copy of the Emperor's statue by Dumont. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4604345: Place Vendome in Paris. The one we know today dates back to 1699 and was designed by Jules Hardouin Mansart. And it was only with the piercing of the Rue de la Paix that the Vendome Column was built in 1806 by Napoleon to the glory of the winners of Austerlitz. An admirer of Roman Antiquity, the Emperor took as model the Trajane column raised in Rome and erige his statue of Napoleon imperator by Chaudet. After the regime changes, Napoleon III installed a copy of the Emperor's statue by Dumont. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4604394: Anserine - Engraving by Pierre Jean Francois Turpin (1775-1840), from La flore medicale, by Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet, Paris 1830 - Shrubby goosefoot or American wormseed, Dysphania anthelmintica - Engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by P - J - F - Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret et et Chamberet's “La Flore Medicale,” Paris, Panckoucke, 1830 - / Bridgeman Images
FLO4604440: Sea squill, Drimia maritima, with bulb, leaf, stalk and flower. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret and Chamberet's “” La Flore Medicale,”” Paris, Panckoucke, 1830., Turpin, Pierre Jean Francois (1775-1840) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4594288: The solar system, showing the sun, Mercury, Venus, the earth, Mars, Juno, Pallas, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, the Georgian planet (Uranus) and Vesta (asteroid). 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
FLO4594381: Elm oyster (Agaricus ulmarius, 1), rough clavary (Clavaria rugosa, 2), vermiculee clavary (Clavaria vermiculata, 3) - Chromolithography based on a drawing by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1825-1914), published in “A Plain and Easy Account of British Fungi”), edition Robert Hardwicke, London, 1862 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4594463: Summer truffle or St. John's truffle (Tuber aestivum 1), roge truffle (Melanogaster variegatus 2), geoglosse or tongue (Geoglossum olivaceum 3) -Chromolithography after drawing by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1825-1914), published in “A Plain and Easy Account of British Fungi” (English mushrooms), edition Robert Hardwicke, London, 1862 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4594497: Dress (Robe) of the reign of King William II, Rufus, 1087-1100. She wears a fur trimmed cloak over a full dress, and her hair long tied in ribbons. Illuminated manuscripts, Cotton MS Nero C.4 and psalter of the 12th century. 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
FLO4594665: Dress (Robe) of the early part of the reign of Queen Mary, 1553-1558. She weasrs a lace headdress and collar, a bodice with puff shoulders and short sleeves decorated with jewels. Based on descriptions by Pedro de Gante, Stow, Hall, Strutt, and portraits. 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
FLO4594534: Dress (Dress) of the reign of King John, 1199-1216. She wears a green mantle fastened at the throat over a grey-blue dress, white embroidered veil with diadem and wimple. Based on an order by the king for a pelisson to be made for the queen, Du Cange, Matthew Paris, Sir Walter Scott's descriptions. 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
FLO4594776: Dress (Dress) of the reign of King George III, 1760-1820. She wears a tropical bird in her powdered hair, a crucifix around her neck, silk embroidered dress and petticoats, white gloves and fan. Based on a miniature by Christian Friedrich Zincke of Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu, print of the Duchess of Devonshire by Bartolozzi, and “” The Maiden Aunt””” 1776. 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
FLO4594621: Dress (Robe) of the reign of King Richard III, 1483-1485. Blue and gold embroidered dress with white puff sleeves, jeweled necklace and belt, headdress with upright veil. Based on illuminated Royal manuscript 16F2, Harleian manuscript 4425, “” Roman de la Rose,””” Strutt's Habits. 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
FLO4594690: Dress (Dress) of the reign of James I and Charles I, 1603-1649. She wears a black hat, tall lace collar, necklace, black mantle over a green puff-sleeved dress with lace cuffs, and carries a peacock feather fan. Portrait of James I's daughter, Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, Speed's Map of England, Vansomer's portrait of the time. 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
FLO4594718: Dress (Dress) of the reign of Queen Anne, 1702-1714. She wears a tall hat of ribbon and lace, a dress trimmed with lace, white gloves, and carries a lace fan. Addison's Spectator, prints and portraits, Horace Walpole. 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
FLO4594747: Dress (Robe) of the reign of George II, 1727-1760. She wears a headdress in the shape of a carriage, beauty spots, necklaces and chokers, a dress with fitted bodice, short sleeves and long lace cuffs, a lace apron, and a watch hanging from her belt. Based on Hogarth, Gray's Inn Journal, Thomas Jefferys Collection of Dresses, and “” The Connoisseur.” 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
FLO4594995: Plum varieties, Prunus domestica: Tours, Lawrane's Early Plum and Orleans. 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. Â / Bridgeman Images
FLO4595036: Apricot varieties, Prunus armeniaca: blossom, leaf, White Masculine, Red Masculine, Orange Apricot and Turkey Apricot. 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
FLO4595223: Green flesh or Candia melon, Cucumis melo. 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
FLO4595286: Pear varieties, Pyrus communis: Cressan, Gansell's Bergamot and Summer Bon Chretien. 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