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Sketches of Cricket in India, 1890

A series of sketches by an English Cavalry Officer of a game of cricket played between an Indian College and British Officers, in India, 1890. The correspondent who sent in the account of this match wished to remain anonymous and gave little in the way of details about the match. Indeed the Indian College was given the pseudonym 'The Progress College of Arts and Sciences' and the location was not disclosed. The Illustrated London News editor who wrote the original caption said there was a 'touch of caricature' in their depiction of the Indian players, but hoped 'the joke would be taken in a good-humoured spirit, as it is meant'.

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Citizens of Augsburg of the early 18th century

Citizens of Augsburg of the early 18th century from a copperplate engraving of a doll's house. . A hunter with game, housekeeper, servant girls with plates and account books, a cook with ham, and a tailor. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 18th Century, Frankfurt, 1889. Illustration by Dr. Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck, lithograph by Joh. Klipphahn and published by Heinrich Keller. Dr. Hefner-Alteneck (1811 - 1903) was a German curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher.

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Fairy ring champignon, Marasmius oreades 1

Fairy ring champignon, Marasmius oreades 1, false champignon 2, and nagelschwamme 3. . Fairy ring champignon, Marasmius oreades 1, false champignon, Marasmius peronatus 2, and nagelschwamme, Agaricus esculentus 3. Chromolithograph of an illustration by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke from A Plain and Easy Account of British Fungi, Robert Hardwicke, London 1862. Cooke (1825-1914) was an English botanist and mycologist who worked at the India Museum and the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew.

© Florilegius / Mary Evans