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FLO4618807: Drinking party at the Christopher public house for a society of old Etonians that stole inn and shop signs. Signs for a pawn shop, milliners, optician, wineseller, fishmonger, cobbler, barber, etc. Oppidan's Museum, or Eton Court of Claims at the Christopher. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Robert Cruikshank from The English Spy, London, 1825. Written by Bernard Blackmantle, a pseudonym for Charles Molloy Westmacott. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4618988: Bow Street officers Daniel Bishop, James Smith and George Ruthven arresting thieves, Family Men gang members, pimps and prostitutes at the Finish coffee house, Covent Garden. A thief is about to throw a list of stolen property into the fire. Family Men at Fault, or an unexpected visit from the Bishop and his Chaplains. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Robert Cruikshank from The English Spy, London, 1825. Written by Bernard Blackmantle, a pseudonym for Charles Molloy Westmacott. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4618951: Gamblers including Mr. Tanfield, John Gully and the Earl of Sefton settling bets after the Doncaster St. Leger at Tattersalls. Monday after the Great St. Leger, or Heroes of the Turf paying and receiving at Tattersalls. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Robert Cruikshank from The English Spy, London, 1825. Written by Bernard Blackmantle, a pseudonym for Charles Molloy Westmacott. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4619019: Bernard Blackmantle (Charles Molloy Westmacott) reading his Farce in the Green Room of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Thomas Wageman from The English Spy, London, 1825. Written by Bernard Blackmantle, a pseudonym for Charles Molloy Westmacott. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4618937: Oxford university big wigs and donations including Dr. Kett, Lord Greville, Dr. Grosvenor, Alderman Fletcher and Mr. Swan promenading on a Sunday. Shew Sunday, Sketches of Character in the Broad Walk, Christ Church Meadows, Oxford. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Robert Cruikshank from The English Spy, London, 1825. Written by Bernard Blackmantle, a pseudonym for Charles Molloy Westmacott. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4619323: Berberis with boxwood leaf or calafate - Lithograph by J. Swan, based on an illustration by William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), extract from Flore Exotic, Scotland, 1823 - Magellan barberry, Berberis microphylla (Various-leaved barberry, Berberis heterophylla) - Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Swan after a botanical illustration by W. J. Hooker from his own “” Exotic Flora,”” Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4619351: American Cryptocoryne or Candle Plant - Lithography by J. Swan, based on an illustration by William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), extract from Exotic Flora, Scotland, 1823 - Aquatic orontium, Orontium aquatium - Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Swan after a botanical illustration by W. J. Hooker from his own “” Exotic Flora,”, Edinburgh, 1823 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4619467: Variete d'osbeckia “star” - Lithograph by J. Swan, from an illustration by William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), extract from Flora Exotic, Scotland, 1823 - Woolly-fruited osbeckia, Osbeckia stellata - Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Swan after a botanical illustration by W. J. Hooker from his own “Exotic Flora,”” Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4619105: Hapless Londoners riding in the Epping Hunt, Easter Monday. Dandies and fops came down from London and rode on horses and in carriages chasing a single stag. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Robert Cruikshank from The English Spy, London, 1825. Written by Bernard Blackmantle, a pseudonym for Charles Molloy Westmacott. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4619702: Orchid: Yellow-flowered dendrobium variete - Lithograph by J. Swan, from an illustration by William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), extract from Exotic Flora, Scotland, 1823 - Fringed-lipped or fringed dendrobium orchid, Dendrobium fimbriatum - Handcoloured copperplate illustration engraving by J. Swan after a botanical by W. J. Hooker from his own “” Exotic Flora,”” Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4619722: Calceolar in corymb or small slipper - Lithograph by J. Swan, from an illustration by William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), extract from Flore Exotic, Scotland, 1823 - Slipper flower, Calceolaria corymbosa (Glandular-stalked slipper flower, Calceolaria paralia) - Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Swan a botanical illustration by W. J. Hooker from his own “” Exotic Flora,”” Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4619823: Coins and medals from ancient Egypt, including portraits of Ptolemy Euergetes 1,13, Berenice 2, Arsinoe 3, Ptolemy II Philadelphus 4, Arsinoe 5, Ptolemy V Epiphanes 6, Ptolemy VIII Physcon 7, Ptolemy IX Lathyros 8, Ptolemy XI Alexander 9, Ptolemy XII Auletes 10, and Cleopatra 12. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Antique and Modern of All Peoples (Il Costume Antico e Moderno di Tutti i i Popoli), 1843. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4619988: Costumes of the Bijagos women, native to Cazegut in the Bissagos Islands off Guinea Bissau. Women with their hair dyed red and dressed with palm oil, and grass skirts. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Antonio Sasso from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, 1843. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4620567: Egyptian agriculture: priest of Osiris with sceptre 1, following a man with plow behind two yoked oxen 2, man sowing seed 3 from a box 4, men harvesting wheat with a scythe 5,6, men carrying produce 7,8,9 and men pressing grapes while holding on to ropes hanging from a horizontal pole 10. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Antique and Modern of All Peoples (Il Costume Antico e Moderno di Tutti i i Popoli), 1843. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4620762: Soldiers and weapons of Carthage. Carthaginian soldiers in breastplate and helmet 1,2, Hannibal's shield 3, and war machine 4, a battering ram within a portable hut covered in cowhide. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, 1843. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4619578: Cardamine with Reseda Leaves - Lithography by J. Swan, from an illustration by William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), extract from Flore Exotic, Scotland, 1823 - Mignonette-leaved bittercress or lady's smock, Cardamine resedifolia - Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Swan after a botanical illustration by W. J. Hooker from own “” Exotic Flora,”” Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4619306: Orchid: tongue or tongue serapias or tongue elleborine - Lithography by J. Swan, from an illustration by William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), extract from Flore Exotic, Scotland, 1823 - Tongue orchid or tongue-lipped serapias, Serapias lingua - Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Swan after a botanical illustration by W. J. Oker from his own “” Exotic Flora,”” Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4619460: Orchid: variete of Venus's hoof, paphiopedilum of the foothills of the Himalayan - Lithograph by J. Swan, from an illustration by William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), extract from Flore Exotic, Scotland, 1823 - Charming paphiopedilum orchid, Paphiopedilum venustum (Spotted lady's slipper, Cypriy Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Swan after a botanical illustration by W. J. Hooker from his own “” Exotic Flora,”” Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4619586: Fougere: variete d'ophioglosse - Lithograph by J. Swan, from an illustration by William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), extract from Flore Exotic, Scotland, 1823 - Adder's tongue, Ophioglossum reticulatum (Petiolated adder's tongue, Ophioglossum petiolatum) - Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Swan after a botanical illustration by W. J. Hooker from his own “” Exotic Flora,”” Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823 / Bridgeman Images