FLO4669610: Payment of customs in the Long Room at Custom House. Built in 1813 by the architect David Laing, it collapsed in 1825. Steel engraving by Henry Melville after an illustration by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd from London Interiors, Their Costumes and Ceremonies, Joshua Mead, London, 1841. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4669753: Additional Library at the British Museum. The British Museum had 13 miles of shelves and its catalog of books ran to 61 folio volumes. Steel engraving by Radclyffe after an illustration by Llewellyn Jewitt from London Interiors, Their Costumes and Ceremonies, Joshua Mead, London, 1841. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4670009: Purple-coloured indigo tree, Indigofera violacea, coronilla-leaved swainsonia, Swainsonia coronillaefolia, crimson glory pea, Clianthus puniceus, Mr. Loudon's adesmia, Adesmia loudonia, scarlet kennedya, Kennedya coccinea, and large-keeled physolobium, Physolobium carinatum. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs. Jane Loudon's Ladies Flower Garden or Ornamental Greenhouse Plants. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4670019: Splended fringe myrtle, Verticordia insignia, twiggy calythrix, Calythrix virgata, oleander-leaved melaleuca, Melaleuca neriifolia, scaly-branched melaleuca, Melaleuca squamea, and common myrtle, Myrtus communis. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs. Jane Loudon's Ladies Flower Garden or Ornamental Greenhouse Plants. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4670329: Poppy anemone, Anemone coronaria, star anemone, A. stellata, blue mountain anemone, A. appenia, palmate anemone, A. palmata, yellow wood anemone, A. ranunculoides, vine-leaved anemone, A. vitifolia, narcissus-flowered anemone, A. narcissiflora, and common wood anemone, A. nemone. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs. Jane Loudon's Ladies Flower Garden of Ornamental Perennials, William S. Orr, London, 1849. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4670413: Thick-leaved saxifrage, Saxifragus crassifolia, Nepaul saxifrage, Saxifragus ligulata, Saxifragus appositifolia and Saxifragus stellaris. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs. Jane Loudon's Ladies Flower Garden of Ornamental Perennials, William S. Orr, London, 1849. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4670481: Two-coloured gaillardia, Gaillardia bicolor, bristly gaillardia, Gaillardia aristata, large marsh ox-eye, Pyrethrum uliginosum, scarlet chrysanthemum, Pyrethrum carneum, and pellitory of Spain, Anthemis pyrethrum. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs. Jane Loudon's Ladies Flower Garden of Ornamental Perennials, William S. Orr, London, 1849. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4670520: Chrysanthemum indicum varieties: The Early Crimson, the Quilled Orange and the Quilled White. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs. Jane Loudon's Ladies Flower Garden of Ornamental Perennials, William S. Orr, London, 1849. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4670659: Mimulus maclayana, bright-scarlet mimulus, M. cardinalis, Mr. Smith's mimulus, M. smithii, yellow-flowered mimulus, M. luteus, and rose-coloured mimulus, M. roseus. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs. Jane Loudon's Ladies Flower Garden of Ornamental Perennials, William S. Orr, London, 1849. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4670664: Creeping phlox, Phlox stolonifera, procumbent phlox, Phlox procumbens, bristle-leaved phlox, Phlox setacea, awl-leaved phlox, Phlox subulata, and snow-white phlox, Phlox nivalis. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs. Jane Loudon's Ladies Flower Garden of Ornamental Perennials, William S. Orr, London, 1849. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4670742: Brilliant-flowered sage, Salvia fulgens, spreading sage, Salvia patens, Mr. Graham's sage, Salvia grahami, and narrow-leaved sage, Salvia angustifolia. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs. Jane Loudon's Ladies Flower Garden of Ornamental Perennials, William S. Orr, London, 1849. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4670888: Poplar admiral, Limenitis populi, common glider, Neptis sappho, and Hungarian glider, Neptis rivularis. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis Nicolas Noel from Hippolyte Lucas' Natural History of European Butterflies, Histoire Naturelle des Lepidopteres d'Europe, 1864. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4671098: Lime hawkmoth, Mimas tiliae, eyed hawkmoth, Smerinthus ocellatus, and poplar hawkmoth, Laothoe populi. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis Nicolas Noel from Hippolyte Lucas' Natural History of European Butterflies, Histoire Naturelle des Lepidopteres d'Europe, 1864. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4671160: Variete of Aucuba Luteocarpa, with pale gold-coloured berry cluster. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4671237: Hybrid Amaryllis, Olga variete with white flower crimson stripes. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4671271: Auricule, variete Alderman Wisbey, with flowers rosettes of green, black and white colors. Lithograph by Worthington G.Smith (1835-1917), published in Floral Magazine, 1872, edited by Henry Honywood Dombrain (1818-1905). / Bridgeman Images

FLO4671285: Variety of fantasy thoughts: yellow and black bordered with purple: James Nelson variete; black bordered with white: Lady Ross variete; purple variete John B. Downie; brown and yellow: David Mitchell variete. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4670349: Mr. Bowie's oxalis, Oxalis bowiei, scalloped wood-sorrel, Oxalis crenata, many-flowered oxalis, Oxalis floribunda, and variable oxalis, Oxalis variabilis. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs. Jane Loudon's Ladies Flower Garden of Ornamental Perennials, William S. Orr, London, 1849. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4670373: Cultivated double varieties of poppy anemone, Anemone coronaria. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs. Jane Loudon's Ladies Flower Garden of Ornamental Perennials, William S. Orr, London, 1849. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4670470: Golden coreopsis, Coreopsis aurea, large-flowered coreopsis, C. grandiflora, lanceolate-leaved coreopsis, C. lanceolata, six-leaved coreopsis, C. senifolia, whorl-leaved coreopsis, C. verticillata, and smooth-leaved heliopsis, Heliopsis laevis. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs. Jane Loudon's Ladies Flower Garden of Ornamental Perennials, William S. Orr, London, 1849. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4670525: Three-coloured arctotis, Arctotis tricolor, spotted arctotis, Arctotis maculata, showy arctotis, Arctotis speciosa, and narrow-leaved grindelia, Grindelia angustifolia. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs. Jane Loudon's Ladies Flower Garden of Ornamental Perennials, William S. Orr, London, 1849. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4670723: Mr. Murray's penstemon, Penstemon murrayanus, cut-leaved penstemon, P. argutus, and cobaea-like penstemon, P. cobaea. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs. Jane Loudon's Ladies Flower Garden of Ornamental Perennials, William S. Orr, London, 1849. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4670895: Purple emperor butterfly, Apatura iris, ventral and dorsal, and lesser purple emperor, Apatura ilia. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis Nicolas Noel from Hippolyte Lucas' Natural History of European Butterflies, Histoire Naturelle des Lepidopteres d'Europe, 1864. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4670937: Marbled fritillary, Brenthis daphne, lesser marbled fritillary, Brenthis ino, pearl-bordered fritillary, Boloria euphrosyne, and violet fritillary, Boloria dia. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis Nicolas Noel from Hippolyte Lucas' Natural History of European Butterflies, Histoire Naturelle des Lepidopteres d'Europe, 1864. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4670980: Dryad, Minois dryas, striped grayling, Hipparchia fidia, and great sooty satyr, Satyrus ferula. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis Nicolas Noel from Hippolyte Lucas' Natural History of European Butterflies, Histoire Naturelle des Lepidopteres d'Europe, 1864. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4671011: Seathorn hawk-moth, Hyles hippophaes, dusky hawkmoth, Hyles vespertilio, and spurge hawkmoth, Hyles euphorbiae. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis Nicolas Noel from Hippolyte Lucas' Natural History of European Butterflies, Histoire Naturelle des Lepidopteres d'Europe, 1864. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4671048: Blind ringlet, Erebia pharte, almond-eyed ringlet, Erebia alberganus, Piedmont ringlet, Erebia meolans, and sooty ringlet, Erebia pluto. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis Nicolas Noel from Hippolyte Lucas' Natural History of European Butterflies, Histoire Naturelle des Lepidopteres d'Europe, 1864. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4671194: Amarante Celosia Huttoni or crete de rooster, with purple and dark green foliage. Lithograph by Worthington G.Smith (1835-1917), published in Floral Magazine, 1872, edited by Henry Honywood Dombrain (1818-1905). / Bridgeman Images

LRI4671287: Deposition, Polyptych of the passion (alabaster relief, 15th century), English School, (15th century) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4671317: Variete of lily washintonianum type, with crimson and yellow flowers. Lithograph by Worthington G.Smith (1835-1917), published in Floral Magazine, 1872, edited by Henry Honywood Dombrain (1818-1905). / Bridgeman Images

FLO4708503: Knight of the Order of Aviz, in ceremonial dress. A Portuguese military religious order, after the conquest of Aviz (Portugal), a military fortress was built and became the mother house of the order, who first called themselves the Knights of St. Benedict d'Aviz until they adopted the Benedictine rule in 1162. They were subject to the rules and the Cistercian costume, wearing a white coat and a green lysee flower cross, although this illustration clearly shows a red Cistercian cross on the chest of his coat. Hand-coloured copper engraving, in “Images historiques des costumes des principaux peuples de l'Antiquite et du Middle Ages” by Robert Von Spalart, published in 1796. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4709374: Gentlemen's watch in 18-carat gold case. Chromolithograph from Edwin Street's Gems Catalog, Bond Street, London, circa 1895. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4709560: Thirty guinea jewels: brooch, pendant, ring, and bracelet in diamond, opal, pearl and sapphire. Chromolithograph from Edwin Street's Gems Catalog, Bond Street, London, circa 1895. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4709279: Diamond combs and head ornaments, wings, sword hilts, etc. Chromolithograph from Edwin Street's Gems Catalog, Bond Street, London, circa 1895. / Bridgeman Images

MME4709639: Portrait of American comedian Matt Dillon, 1984, Mencarini, Marcello / Bridgeman Images

MME4710021: Austrian conductor Carlos Kleiber at a concert in Pompei in 1987., Mencarini, Marcello / Bridgeman Images