Grande Bretagne Collection (#3)

Medallion portrait of astronomer Sir William Herschel. Chromolithograph drawn by Grivell
FLO4688973 Medallion portrait of astronomer Sir William Herschel. Chromolithograph drawn by Grivell and lithographed by Parrot et Co

Teapot and sucrier with green quatrefoils on blue, and chocolate pot in slate blue from the Gladstone service
FLO4688970 Teapot and sucrier with green quatrefoils on blue, and chocolate pot in slate blue from the Gladstone service. Chromolithograph drawn by Grivell and lithographed by Parrot et Co

Plaque showing King Priam of Troy begging Achilles for the body of his son Hector
FLO4688952 Plaque showing King Priam of Troy begging Achilles for the body of his son Hector. Chromolithograph drawn by Grivell and lithographed by Parrot et Co

Parish Beadle, a petty officer of the police, in uniform with mace, bicorn and cape
FLO4688689 Parish Beadle, a petty officer of the police, in uniform with mace, bicorn and cape. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from William Henry Pyne's The World in Miniature: England

Snow pierce, blue anemone and small celandine. Lithograph by Louisa Anne Twamley (1812-1895) in Our Wild Flower
FLO4720651 Snow pierce, blue anemone and small celandine. Lithograph by Louisa Anne Twamley (1812-1895) in Our Wild Flower, Charles Tilt, London, England, 1839.; (add.info.: Snow pierce)

Epic swine skin disease of Richard Lambert (Ichthyose hystrix) - Strong water extracted from the Encyclopedie of
FLO4726900 Epic swine skin disease of Richard Lambert (Ichthyose hystrix) - Strong water extracted from the Encyclopedie of Natural History: Humanite, by Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811)

Theier or tree a the. Coloured copper engraving, based on an illustration by Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811)
FLO4726666 Theier or tree a the. Coloured copper engraving, based on an illustration by Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811), in Encyclopedie d'histoire naturelle, published in Vienna (Austria)

Pagoda of Linqing, Daqiao village, Shandong Province, China. Eight-story tower in white brick and varnished tile
FLO4722593 Pagoda of Linqing, Daqiao village, Shandong Province, China. Eight-story tower in white brick and varnished tile, about 240 feet high

View of the Great Wall of China near Kou-Pee-Keow, at the pass between China and Eastern Tartary
FLO4722492 View of the Great Wall of China near Kou-Pee-Keow, at the pass between China and Eastern Tartary. From Samuel Holmes (18th-19th century) Journal of a Voyage to China and Tartary

Specimens of the Uminn and Uchen characters in the language of Tibet. Illustration by Lieutenant Samuel Davis From
FLO4722375 Specimens of the Uminn and Uchen characters in the language of Tibet. Illustration by Lieutenant Samuel Davis From Captain Samuel Turner (1759-1802)

View of the village of Chuka, Tibet. Illustration by Lieutenant Samuel Davis From Captain Samuel Turner (1759-1802)
FLO4722277 View of the village of Chuka, Tibet. Illustration by Lieutenant Samuel Davis From Captain Samuel Turner (1759-1802) Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama in Tibet 1800

Description of fruits: red apples and apricots. Chromolithographie in " Recueil d'images instructives ou
FLO4721561 Description of fruits: red apples and apricots. Chromolithographie in " Recueil d'images instructives ou lecons du monde vegetal", by Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901)

Description of fruits: blue plum (quetsche) and peach
FLO4721528 Description of fruits: blue plum (quetsche) and peach; (add.info.: Description of fruits: blue plum (quetsche) and peach); © Florilegius

Description of the common bryone (Bryonia alba), with its golden berries. Chromolithographie in " Recueil
FLO4721416 Description of the common bryone (Bryonia alba), with its golden berries. Chromolithographie in " Recueil d'images instructives ou lecons du monde vegetal"

Descriptive board: green asparagus and potato. Chromolithographie in " Recueil d'images instructives ou lecons
FLO4721603 Descriptive board: green asparagus and potato. Chromolithographie in " Recueil d'images instructives ou lecons du monde vegetal", by Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901)

Description of berries: fruits of cranberry, raspberry and strawberry. Chromolithographie in " Recueil
FLO4721501 Description of berries: fruits of cranberry, raspberry and strawberry. Chromolithographie in " Recueil d'images instructives ou lecons du monde vegetal"

Description of the annual mercuriale, plant flowers, fruits and roots
FLO4721404 Description of the annual mercuriale, plant flowers, fruits and roots.; (add.info.: Description of the annual mercuriale, plant flowers, fruits and roots.); © Florilegius

Description of cereal: rice and millet. Chromolithographie in " Recueil d'images instructives ou lecons du
FLO4721130 Description of cereal: rice and millet. Chromolithographie in " Recueil d'images instructives ou lecons du monde vegetal", by Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901)

Description of a medicinal poppy with white flower and blue chicoree flower
FLO4721038 Description of a medicinal poppy with white flower and blue chicoree flower. Chromolithographie in " Recueil d'images instructives ou lecons du monde vegetal"

View of the basalt columns of Giant's Causeway, Antrim, Northern Ireland
FLO4727912 View of the basalt columns of Giant's Causeway, Antrim, Northern Ireland. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm's Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte

Pomegranate, fruit description and sections. Coloured copper engraving, based on an illustration by Gottlieb Tobias
FLO4726465 Pomegranate, fruit description and sections. Coloured copper engraving, based on an illustration by Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811), in Encyclopedie d'histoire naturelle

Common banana tree. Coloured copper engraving, based on an illustration by Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811)
FLO4726377 Common banana tree. Coloured copper engraving, based on an illustration by Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811), in Encyclopedie d'histoire naturelle, published in Vienna (Austria)

Variete of heather - Erica holosericea variety. (blood-spotted white andromeda flowered heath)
FLO4580379 Variete of heather - Erica holosericea variety. (blood-spotted white andromeda flowered heath, Erica andromedaeflora var. triumphans)

Tall canna, Canna tuerckheimii (Canna gigantea). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after an illustration by
FLO4580320 Tall canna, Canna tuerckheimii (Canna gigantea). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after an illustration by John Curtis from Samuel Curtis's " Botanical Magazine

Spiked ginger lily or spike-flowered hedychium, Hedychium spicatum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after
FLO4580286 Spiked ginger lily or spike-flowered hedychium, Hedychium spicatum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after an illustration by John Curtis from Samuel Curtis's "

Veritable carnation variete - Long scaled pink, Dianthus pseudarmeria. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell
FLO4580200 Veritable carnation variete - Long scaled pink, Dianthus pseudarmeria. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after an illustration by John Curtis from Samuel Curtis's "

Oriental Aunee - Inula orientalis (Glandulous inula, Inula glandulosa). Handcoloured botanical engraving from John Sims
FLO4579313 Oriental Aunee - Inula orientalis (Glandulous inula, Inula glandulosa). Handcoloured botanical engraving from John Sims Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Couchman, London

Buglosse officinale - Common bugloss, Anchusa officinalis (Purple-flowered narrow-leaved bugloss)
FLO4579304 Buglosse officinale - Common bugloss, Anchusa officinalis (Purple-flowered narrow-leaved bugloss, Anchusa angustifolia)

Syzygium smithii (Round-fruited eugenia, Eugenia elliptica). Handcoloured botanical engraving by Weddell from John Sims
FLO4579280 Syzygium smithii (Round-fruited eugenia, Eugenia elliptica). Handcoloured botanical engraving by Weddell from John Sims Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Couchman, London

Jujubier - Christ's thorn jujube, Ziziphus spina-christi (Christ's thorn, Zizyphus paliurus)
FLO4579247 Jujubier - Christ's thorn jujube, Ziziphus spina-christi (Christ's thorn, Zizyphus paliurus). Handcoloured botanical engraving from John Sims Curtis's Botanical Magazine

Stapelia, carrion flower - Gonostemon deflexus (Bent-flowered stapelia, Stapelia deflexa)
FLO4579234 Stapelia, carrion flower - Gonostemon deflexus (Bent-flowered stapelia, Stapelia deflexa). Handcoloured botanical engraving from John Sims Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Couchman

Brown spiderwort or bears ears, Siderasis fuscata (Stemless spiderwort, Tradescantia fuscata)
FLO4580562 Brown spiderwort or bears ears, Siderasis fuscata (Stemless spiderwort, Tradescantia fuscata). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after an illustration by John Curtis

White argemone (poppy variete) - White prickly poppy or white-flowered argemone, Argemone albiflora
FLO4580531 White argemone (poppy variete) - White prickly poppy or white-flowered argemone, Argemone albiflora. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after an illustration by John Curtis

Ipomee vine wild potato - Wild potato vine, manroot Ipomoea pandurata (Fiddle-leaved bindweed, Convolvulus panduratus)
FLO4579513 Ipomee vine wild potato - Wild potato vine, manroot Ipomoea pandurata (Fiddle-leaved bindweed, Convolvulus panduratus)

Grassy triggerplant or fat-leaved stylidium, Stylidium graminifolium. Handcoloured botanical engraving from John Sims
FLO4579429 Grassy triggerplant or fat-leaved stylidium, Stylidium graminifolium. Handcoloured botanical engraving from John Sims Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Couchman, London

Purple Rattlesnake - Hypocalyptus coluteoides (Crimson-flowered crotalaria, Crotalaria purpurea)
FLO4579385 Purple Rattlesnake - Hypocalyptus coluteoides (Crimson-flowered crotalaria, Crotalaria purpurea). Handcoloured botanical engraving from John Sims Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Couchman

Rhododendron or azalee florists - Evergreen daurian rhododendron, Rhododendron dahuricum sempervirens
FLO4579308 Rhododendron or azalee florists - Evergreen daurian rhododendron, Rhododendron dahuricum sempervirens. Handcoloured botanical engraving by Weddell from John Sims Curtis's Botanical

Climbing Fragon - Climbing's butcher's broom, Semele androgyna (Ruscus androgynus)
FLO4579296 Climbing Fragon - Climbing's butcher's broom, Semele androgyna (Ruscus androgynus). Handcoloured botanical engraving from John Sims Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Couchman

Creeping polemoine - Creeping greek-valerian, Polemonium reptans. Handcoloured botanical engraving by Weddell from John
FLO4579218 Creeping polemoine - Creeping greek-valerian, Polemonium reptans. Handcoloured botanical engraving by Weddell from John Sims Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Couchman, London

Twining thunbergia, Thunbergia fragrans. Handcoloured botanical engraving from John Sims Curtis's Botanical
FLO4579196 Twining thunbergia, Thunbergia fragrans. Handcoloured botanical engraving from John Sims Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Couchman, London, 1816.; (add.info.: Twining thunbergia)

Penstemon campanulatus - Penstemon campanulatus (Bell-flowered pentstemon, Pentstemon campanulata)
FLO4579185 Penstemon campanulatus - Penstemon campanulatus (Bell-flowered pentstemon, Pentstemon campanulata). Handcoloured botanical engraving by Weddell from John Sims Curtis's Botanical

Pale-flowered meadow pasque-flower, Anemone pratensis obsoleta. Handcoloured botanical engraving by Weddell from John
FLO4579107 Pale-flowered meadow pasque-flower, Anemone pratensis obsoleta. Handcoloured botanical engraving by Weddell from John Sims Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Couchman, London

Melaleuch with thyme leaf - thyme leaved melaleuca, Melaleuca thymifolia. Handcoloured botanical engraving by Weddell
FLO4579066 Melaleuch with thyme leaf - thyme leaved melaleuca, Melaleuca thymifolia. Handcoloured botanical engraving by Weddell from John Sims Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Couchman, London

Stevia - Hyssop-leaved stevia, Stevia eupatoria (Stevia hyssopifolia). Handcoloured botanical engraving by Weddell
FLO4579045 Stevia - Hyssop-leaved stevia, Stevia eupatoria (Stevia hyssopifolia). Handcoloured botanical engraving by Weddell from John Sims Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Couchman, London

Galane de Lyon - Lyon's chelone, Chelone lyonii (Chelone major). Handcoloured botanical engraving by Weddell
FLO4579041 Galane de Lyon - Lyon's chelone, Chelone lyonii (Chelone major). Handcoloured botanical engraving by Weddell from John Sims Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Couchman, London

Breynia fruticosa (Shining-leaved phyllanthus, Phyllanthus turbinatus). Handcoloured botanical engraving by Weddell
FLO4579033 Breynia fruticosa (Shining-leaved phyllanthus, Phyllanthus turbinatus). Handcoloured botanical engraving by Weddell from John Sims Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Couchman, London

Soap factory: a man stirts a tank full of fat into a boil, another cuts the hardened soap with a copper wire - Soap
FLO4577819 Soap factory: a man stirts a tank full of fat into a boil, another cuts the hardened soap with a copper wire - Soap boiler making soap in a factory

Apothecary in his shop using a mortar and pestle to prepare a medicine. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of
FLO4577808 Apothecary in his shop using a mortar and pestle to prepare a medicine. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts.; (add.info)

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"Grande Bretagne: A Tapestry of History, Culture, and Adventure" Step into the world of Grande Bretagne, where history comes alive through captivating illustrations and stories. Catherine de Valois, a queen whose influence shaped England's destiny, is immortalized in an enchanting illustration from Mary Howitt's Biographical Sketches of the Queens of England. Travel to Calcutta and witness the vibrant tapestry of nationalities that have left their mark on India. From Northern Indian to Arab, Chinese to British - each contributing to the rich cultural mosaic that defines this diverse land. Experience daring escapades like Sir H. M. Stanley's heroic act in Uganda as he saves an old prisoner condemned to be burned alive. Emile Bayard's evocative drawing brings this gripping tale from "Through the Mysterious Continent" vividly to life. Embark on Laurence Sterne's Sentimental Journey through France and Italy with his timeless words taking you on a sentimental voyage filled with love, longing, and discovery. Relive historic battles such as Fontenoy where Joseph d'Anterrocks famously declared "Gentlemen of the English, shoot first. " Immerse yourself in Louis VI le Gros' defiant spirit at the Battle of Bremule – reminding all that even kings are not easily captured. Witness tradition at Eton Public School during Regency era muster roll call. Robert Cruikshank's handcoloured copperplate captures boys answering morning rolls – a glimpse into education steeped in heritage. Join Napoleon I on Saint Helena during his exile after 1815. This poignant illustration transports you back in time as he reflects upon his tumultuous reign and ultimate downfall. Indulge in aristocratic elegance at London races depicted by William Nicholson. Experience high society mingling amidst excitement and glamour - a quintessential scene from Victorian London. Immerse yourself in mythology with Persee et les gorgones from Walter Crane's A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys.