FLO4722983: Persian woman in dance costume. Illustration by Mounier from Guillaume Antoine Olivier (1756-1814) Travels in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and Persia, 1801. Copperplate engraving by dell'Acqua handcoloured by Lazaretti from Giovanni Battista Sonzogno's Collection of the Most Interesting Voyages (Raccolta de Viaggi Piu Interessanti), Milan, 1815-1817 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4723122: Kyrgyz (Kirgize) women in traditional costume. Illustration from Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811), in Travels through the southern provinces of the Russia Empire, 1812. Copperplate engraving by dell'Acqua handcoloured by Lazaretti from Giovanni Battista Sonzogno's Collection of the Most Interesting Voyages (Raccolta de Viaggi Piu Interessanti), Milan, 1815-1817 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4723139: Labantsiksa, shaman of the Khorintzi Buryats people of Siberia. She wears a helmet with antlers, leather dress decorated with bells, a cape with three entwined serpents, and holds sticks with horse-head handles. Illustration from Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811), in Travels through the southern provinces of the Russia Empire, 1812. Copperplate engraving by dell'Acqua handcoloured by Lazaretti from Giovanni Battista Sonzogno's Collection of the Most Interesting Voyages (Raccolta de Viaggi Piu Interessanti), Milan, 1815-1817 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4723248: View of the ruins of the Queen's Palace near the Monastery of Saint Chrysostom, Morocco. Illustration by Michallon from (Domingo Badia y Leblich, 1767-1818) Ali Bey el Abbassi's Travels in Morocco, Tripoli, Cyprus, Egypt, Arabia, Syria and Turkey, London 1816. Copperplate engraving by dell'Acqua handcoloured by Lazaretti from Giovanni Battista Sonzogno's Collection of the Most Interesting Voyages (Raccolta de Viaggi Piu Interessanti), Milan, 1815-1817 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4723445: Resident of the islands Ryu Kyu (Okinawa, Japan) - Man of the Lou-Tchou Islands (RyukYu Islands or modern Okinawa) - Handcoloured woodcut by Mercier from “” Habits, Uses et Costumes de tous les Peuples du Monde, Asie,” by Auguste Wahlen, pseudonym of Jean Francois Nicolas Loumyer (1801-1875), Bookshop Historique Artistique, Brussels, 1845 / Bridgeman Images
MME4723740: English journalist Marcelle Padovani, foreign correspondent for the Nouvel Observateur magazine in Italy - In 1991 she was author, with judge Giovanni Falcone, of the book “” Cose di Cosa nostra”” about Sicilian mafia/La giornalista francese Marcelle Padovani, corrispondente del Nouvel Observateur in Italia - Nel 1991 ha scritto, insieme a, insieme a Giovanni Falcone a libro sulla mafia “” Cose di Cosa nostra”” -, Mencarini, Marcello / Bridgeman Images
MME4723780: English journalist Marcelle Padovani, foreign correspondent for the Nouvel Observateur magazine in Italy - In 1991 she was author, with judge Giovanni Falcone, of the book “” Cose di Cosa nostra”” about Sicilian mafia/La giornalista francese Marcelle Padovani, corrispondente del Nouvel Observateur in Italia - Nel 1991 ha scritto, insieme a, insieme a Giovanni Falcone a libro sulla mafia “” Cose di Cosa nostra”” -, Mencarini, Marcello / Bridgeman Images
FLO4684132: Pipa or Suriname toad, description of the female with her young, when hatching protective pockets included in the skin of their mother. Copper engraving by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801) for the naturalist collection, published in 1790 by George Shaw. Pipa or Surinam toad. Pipa pipa (Rana pipa). The female Surinam toad is shown with young frogs hatching from their protective pockets inside the mother's skin. Handcolored copperplate engraving, illustration Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), artist and engraver, from George Shaw's “” Naturalist's Miscellany”” (1790). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4684194: Sea anemone, branch of the cnidaires. Copper engraving by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), George Shaw's illustration for the naturalist collection, published in 1790 by George Shaw. Sea anemone or anemone actinia. Actinia anemone. Scarlet sea anemone shown in contracted (1) and expanded state (3), “” displaying a triple row of circular tentacula of an oblong form, with obtuse points, of a yellow color and varied with red.” Handcolored copperplate engraving, illustration signed S (George Shaw) from George Shaw's “” Naturalist's Miscellany”” (1790). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4684239: Fulgore carries lantern, lantern fly or peanut bug. Copper engraving by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), George Shaw's illustration for the naturalist collection, published in 1790 by George Shaw. Lantern fly, peanut bug, peanut-headed lanternfly, alligator bug, machaca, great lanthorn-fly or firefly. Fulgora laternaria (Fulgora lanternaria). Madam Merian says, “” the light of one of these insects is so vivid that a person may see to read a newspaper by it... However, she seems to have introduced an imaginary figure, representing the Cicada tibican with the head of a Fulgora. The light emitted by the firefly proceeds entirely from the hollow part, or lantern of the head.” Handcolored copperplate engraving, illustration signed S (George Shaw) from George Shaw's “” Naturalist's Miscellany”” (1790). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4684308: Blue morpho butterfly. Copper engraving by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), George Shaw's illustration for the naturalist collection, published in 1790 by George Shaw. Menelaus Blue Morpho butterfly. Morpho menelaus (Papilio menelaus). Iridescent blue tropical butterfly native to Central and South America. Handcolored copperplate engraving, illustration signed S (George Shaw) from George Shaw's “” Naturalist's Miscellany”” (1790). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4683877: Boulder star coral, Montastrea annularis. Endangered. (Annular madrepore, Madrepora annularis). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's “” The Naturalist's Miscellany,”” London, 1810. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4684140: Common green ornithoptere butterfly. Copper engraving by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801) for the naturalist collection, published in 1790 by George Shaw. Common green Birdwing butterfly (Priamus butterfly or the Imperial trojan). Ornithoptera priamus (Papilio priamus). Handcolored copperplate engraving, illustration signed N (Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), artist and engraver) from George Shaw's “” Naturalist's Miscellany”” (1790). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4684202: Giant kangaroo. Copper engraving by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), for the naturalist collection, published in 1790 by George Shaw. Great kanguroo or eastern grey kangaroo. Macropus giganteus. Handcolored copperplate engraving, illustration signed N (Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), artist and engraver) from George Shaw's “” Naturalist's Miscellany”” (1790). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4684208: Sea anemone, branch of the cnidaires. Description of the animal's inner tentacles. Copper engraving by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), George Shaw's illustration for the naturalist collection, published in 1790 by George Shaw. Sea anemone or anemone actinia. Actinia anemone. Sea anemone open slightly to reveal “” a few of the interior branchy tentacula or central parts”” (2), and protruding “” almost the whole of its interior parts or viscera in the form of an inflated membrane of a pale yellow colour, and striped very elegantly with rays of red and pale green.” Handcolored copperplate engraving, illustration signed S (George Shaw) from George Shaw's “” Naturalist's Miscellany”” (1790). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4684305: Boa constrictor, formerly known as boa devin or aviosa. Copper engraving by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), George Shaw's illustration for the naturalist collection, published in 1790 by George Shaw. Great boa. Boa constrictor. Handcolored copperplate engraving, illustration signed S (George Shaw) from George Shaw's “” Naturalist's Miscellany”” (1790). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4684313: Banks or banksian. Copper engraving by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), George Shaw's illustration for the naturalist collection, published in 1790 by George Shaw. Red tailed Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii, Calyptorhynchus magnificus), Banksian or Bank's Black Cockatoo. Handcolored copperplate engraving, illustration signed SN (George Shaw and Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), artist and engraver) from George Shaw's “” Naturalist's Miscellany”” (1790). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4684745: Flowering plants including mammee apple (apple poison, apple zombie), mangosteen (mangosteen), vateria, camphor (camphor), bacuri (traveri), white cinnamon (white cinnamon), ironwood (iron wood), poppy (poppy), violet (violet), nepenthes, pitcher plant (buckacenie), venus flytrap (dione), etc. Lithograph from Lorenz Oken's Universal Natural History, Allgemeine Naturgeschichte fur alle Stande, Stuttgart, 1841. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4684355: Lazy has three fingers. Copper engraving by Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801) for the naturalist collection, published in 1790 by George Shaw. Three-toed sloth or pale-throated sloth. Bradypus tridactylus. Handcolored copperplate engraving, illustration signed N (Frederick Polydor Nodder (1751-1801), artist and engraver) from George Shaw's “” Naturalist's Miscellany”” (1790). / Bridgeman Images
FLO4684738: Bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus, sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus, short-beaked dolphin, Delphinus delphis, extinct Steller's sea cow, Hydrodamalis gigas, West Indian manatee, Trichechus manatus, and narwhal, Monodon monoceros. Lithograph from Lorenz Oken's Universal Natural History, Allgemeine Naturgeschichte fur alle Stande, Stuttgart, 1841. / Bridgeman Images