PIX4593230: Persee Constellation - Constellation of Perseus - Persee Constellation. The bright star at the bottom left is Capella in the Coach. Lower right is the Pleiades cluster. At the top of the picture is the constellation Cassiopee. Perseus constellation. The bright star on the left is Capella in Auriga. At the top of the image, Cassiopeia / Bridgeman Images
FLO4593644: Ancient musical instruments and masks. A Greek barbiton or harp (1), a mask of Hercules furens of Euripides (2), a mask of Thai from Terence's play of the Eunochs (3), lyre player from volume 4, plate 42 of the Herculaneum paintings (4) and lyres from Sir William Hamilton's collection (5,6). Copperplate engraving from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1820. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4593669: Ramsden's circle, a five-foot high vertical circle finished in 1789 by the English scientific instrument maker Jesse Ramsden. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J. Farey from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1820. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4593743: Testudo or lyre of Amphion (1,2), lyre held by Terpsichore (3), psaltery (4), triangular harp or Trigonium (5), Abyssinian testudo (6), Etruscan 6-string lyre (7), lyre (8), Egyptian systrum (9) and richly ornamented lyre. Copperplate engraving by John Lee after an illustration by Strange from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1820. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4593778: Optical micrometers including Dr. Nevil Maskelyn's, Mr. Edward Troughton's and Dr. William Herschel's lamp micrometer. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J. Farey Jr. from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1820. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4593826: Indian musical instruments (drums, horns and cymbals) from an original painting (1), and the Been or rudra vina, as described by Sir William Jones in Asiatic Researches. Copperplate engraving by John Lee from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1820. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4594139: Josef de Mendoza y Rios's refinement to the reflecting circle, an astronomical instrument, 1801. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J. Farey from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1820. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4593956: Origins of the bow. Medieval paintings, stuatus and objects depicting early violins or fiddles. Copperplate engraving by John Lee from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1820. / Bridgeman Images
LRI4594165: The Deposition (Pieta) Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary surrounded by Saint John and Saint Mary Magdalene before the cross with the inscription INRI (I.N.R.I.). Low relief ceramic by Giovanni della Robbia (1469-1529) Dim. 3x2,28 m Florence, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Robbia, Giovanni della (1469-c.1530) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4594178: Edward Troughton's wall circle. He was an English maker of astronomical instruments. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J. Farey Jr. from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1820. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4594563: Dress (Dress) of the reign of Edward III, 1327-1377. She wears a gold crown over a hairnet, an ermine-lined mantle over a green dress, with a purse hanging from her belt.Based on a brassed of the wife of William de Wynston, Necton Church, Royal manuscript, “” Vision of Piers Ploughman,”” brassed of Lady Harvick, South Acre Church, Norfolk. 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
FLO4594607: Dress (Dress) of the reign of King Edward I. Longshanks, 1272-1307. She wears a green mantle over a purple dress over a white petticoat, with a jeweled headdress. Based on Sloane manuscript, Lay of Syr Launfal (circa 1300), Royal manuscript, “” Roman de la Rose,”” and Pennant who quotes the lovely Queen of Edward I, Margaret of France, as a model for the dress. 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
FLO4594708: Dress (Dress) of the reign of James II, 1685-1688. She wears her hair in ringlets, a low-cut check dress with bodice and puff sleeves over an embroidered petticoat. Based on Hollar's “” Ornatus Muliebris Anglicanus,”” Heath's “” Chronicle,”” by Grammont, portraits, prints. 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
FLO4594811: Dress (Robe) of the reign of William IV, 1830-1837. Woman in tiara with low-cut gown with puff sleeves and lace cuffs, holding a garland of flowers. Jewelry copied from actual pieces. 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
FLO4594932: Mrs. Maria Theresa Bland, actress and singer, as Madame Marbleu in “” Monsieur Tonson””” the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Robert Cooper after a painting by Samuel de Wilde. From D. Terry's “” British Theatrical Gallery,” London, Henry Berthoud Jr., 1825. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4594431: Marasmus of the oreads or false musseron (Marasmius oreades 1), collybia guetree or burlant marasmus (Marasmius peronatus 2), collybia of the epiceas cones (Agaricus esculentus 3) - Chromolithography after a drawing by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1825-1914), published in “” A Plain and Easy Account of British Fungi”” English), Robert Hardwicke Edition, London, 1862 / Bridgeman Images
LRI4594565: The dwarf Morgante Braccio di Bartolo, court dwarf of Cosimo I of Medici (Cosimo I de Medici). Bronze sculpture by Giambologna (Giovanni da Bologna or Jean de Bologna or Boulogne, 1529-1608) Museo Nazionale del Bargello Florence, Giambologna (Giovanni da Bologna), (1529-1608) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4594766: Dress early in the reign of King George III, 1760-1770. Woman with greengrocer's barrow headdress, bouffant hair, tight silk bodice with lace collar, silk muff and white petticoats. “The long side curls are imitated by carrots similarly disposed.”” Based on prints “” The Maiden Aunt””” 1776, “” The Green Stall,”” “” The Macaroni Courtship,””” and Bunbury. 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
FLO4594887: Mr. James Pimbury Wilkinson as Michael in “” Free and Easy”” at the Theatre Royal English Opera House, Strand. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Robert Cooper after a painting by George Clint. From D. Terry's “” British Theatrical Gallery,” London, Henry Berthoud Jr., 1825. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4595046: Raspberry varieties: red Antwerp, white Antwerp and common raspberry. 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