Handcoloured Collection (page 10)

Jewelry by Veyer. Earrings, necklace and dragonfly bracelet in enamel and diamonds. Bijoux par Veyer. Pendants de cou joaillerie et emaux translucide, bracelet libellules emaux et diamants

Young man in fashionable outfit with top hat and cane, 1912. Mise d un jeune homme. Handcoloured pochoir (stencil) etching after an illustration by Bernard Boutet de Monvel from Tommaso Antonginis

Woman in dress and cape of bleu crepe de chine with pekine velvet gilet jacket. Robe et cape de crepe de chine bleu, gilet de velours pekine

Grand evening dress in silver brocade, blue wig and feathers, Grande robe du soir en brocart d argent, Perruque bleue, aigrettes

French mime Charles-Francois Mazurier as Polichinello, 1823
French comic dancer and mime artist Charles-Francois Mazurier as Polichinello in Polichinelle Vampire by Theodore de Banville at the Theatre de la Porte Saint-Martin, 1823

Wall paintings of candlesticks from the House
Trompe l oeil wall paintings of candlesticks from the House of Castor and Pollux, Pompeii, excavated 1828. Handcoloured lithograph by Berth after an illustration by Wilhelm Zahn from his Ornament of

Kyrgyz women in traditional costume. Illustration from Peter Simon Pallas Travels through the southern provinces of the Russia Empire, 1812

Women of the Mordvin Moksha people in traditional costume of embroidered skirts and many accessories. Illustration from Peter Simon Pallas Travels through the southern provinces of the Russia Empire

Women of the Mordvin Erzya people in traditional costume. Mordovia. Illustration from Peter Simon Pallas Travels through the southern provinces of the Russia Empire, 1812

Mohammad Karim Khan Zand or Karim Han, founder of the Zand Dynasty, 1705-1779. Illustration from Guillaume-Antoine Oliviers Travels in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and Persia, 1801

Mandinka (Mandingo) man and woman of West Africa. From Mungo Parks Travels in the Interior of Africa. Copperplate engraving by Dell Acqua handcoloured by Lazaretti from Giovanni Battista Sonzognos

Chukchi woman with tattoos on her cheek, chin and arm, and ear piercings. (Chukotka region, Russia). From Joseph Billings

Man and woman of the Morea Eyalet, the Peloponnese, Greece. Illustration from Francois Pouquevilles Travels through More, Albania and several other parts of the Ottoman Empire, 1805

Hursid Ahmed Pasha (died 1822), Ottoman governor
Hursid Ahmed Pasha (died 1822), Ottoman general and governor of the Morea Eyalet (the Peloponnese). Illustration from Francois Pouquevilles Travels through More

Mullers skink, Sphenomorphus muelleri. Named for Dr. Salomon Muller, Dutch naturalist. Handcoloured lithograph from Georg Friedrich Treitschkes Gallery of Natural History

Buru flying dragon, Draco lineatus (Draco viridis). Dragon de Bourou, Draco Bourouniensis, after an illustration by Rene-Primevere Lesson

Lion x tiger hybrid
Hybrid between male lion and female tiger, Panthera leo x Panthera tigris. Handcoloured steel engraving from Georg Friedrich Treitschkes Gallery of Natural History

Blue nasturtium or Indian cress, Tropaeolum azureum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by G. Barclay after Miss Sarah Drake from John Lindley and Robert Sweets Ornamental Flower Garden

Himalayan balsam, Impatiens glandulifera (Large-lipped balsam, Impatiens macrochila). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by G

Medieval comedian playing bellows and tongs
Vignette of a comedian holding bellows and tongs as if playing a fiddle, 14th century manuscript. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England

Origin of croquet and billiards, 14th century
Game played with ball, stick, hoop and target (the origin of billiards and croquet), 14th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England

Rider performing carousel exercises with lance, sword and pistol, jousting at a ring and a dummy head. Copied from Francois Robichon de La Guerinieres Ecole de Cavalerie, 1730

Coralline species, Corallina auriculariaeformis. (Cactus coralline, Halimedia opuntia?) Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new

Jean Baptiste Capri, a French deserter who lived on Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands, with tattoos. Handcoloured stipple engraving from Frederic Shoberls The World in Miniature, The South Sea Islands

Native woman of Easter Island or Rapa Nui. Handcoloured stipple engraving from Frederic Shoberls The World in Miniature, The South Sea Islands, Ackermann, 1824

Woman of Ambon, Maluku Islands, Indonesia (Amboyna) in chemise. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Frederic Shoberls The World in Miniature: The Asiatic Islands and New Holland, R

Smooth newt, male, female and larvae, Lissotriton vulgaris (as common newt, Lacerta vulgaris, common water newt, Lacerta palustris, Lacerta punctata)

Crab-eating macaque, Macaca fascicularis. Simia aygula Linn. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Jakob Andreas Eisenmann after an illustration by Jacques de Seve from Johann Christian Daniel

Types of leaves of plants. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Sydenham Edwards from John Mason Goods Pantologia, a New Encyclopedia, G. Kearsley, London, 1813

Drinker, blue underwing and red underwing moths
Drinker moth, Euthrix potatoria 1, blue underwing, Catocala fraxini 2, and red underwing, Catocala nupta 3. Bombyx buveur, Noctuelle du frene, Noctuelle mariee

Rhinoceros beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus (Fork-horned beetle, Scarabaeus dichotomus). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Great mormon butterfly, Papilio memnon (Agenor butterfly, Papilio agenor). Illustration drawn by George Shaw and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Spectacled owl, Pulsatrix perspicillata (Masked owl, Strix larvata). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Shopgirls playing the game of a little bird told me
A mistress of a clothes shop and her staff playing a game of a little bird told me. The women wear bonnets, aprons, and black dresses

Convolvulus hawk-moth and bindweed
Convolvulus hawk-moth, Agrius convolvuli, caterpillar and pupa with field bindweed, Convolvulus arvensis LXXV. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Maria Sibylla Merian from De Europischen Insecten

Skeleton of Death about to spear a Swiss soldier on a battlefield, as another skeletal drummer advances behind them. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar from The Dance of Death by

Two-person horse-drawn carriage called a vis-a-vis a l anglaise, English face to face. Built by M. Herve, master carriage builder of rue Feydeau

Woman in huge hats from the court of Marie Antoinette
Woman in sky-blue caraco wearing a huge straw hat lined with pink satin and decorated with ribbons, and woman in pink caraco with large hat in taffeta and gauze, decorated with artificial flowers

Virginia snakeroot, Aristolochia serpentaria. Handcoloured woodblock engravings from James Mains Popular Botany, Orr and Smith, London, 1835

Different types of flower: personate, infundibuliform, ringent, campanulate, rotate and hypocratiform. Handcoloured woodblock engravings from James Mains Popular Botany, Orr and Smith, London, 1835

Blue underwing, red underwing and dark crimson underwing
Blue underwing, Catocala fraxini, red underwing, Catocala nupta, and dark crimson underwing, Catocala sponsa. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis

Old World swallowtail and southern swallowtail
Old World swallowtail, Papilio machaon, and alexanor or southern swallowtail, Papilio alexanor. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis Nicolas Noel

Bistort, Polygonum bistorta, and adderstongue
Bistort, Polygonum bistorta, male and female, and adderstongue, Ophioglossum vulgatum. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal

Crested iris, Iris cristata. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cooke from Conrad Loddiges Botanical Cabinet, Hackney, 1828

Peony, Paeonia moutan rosea. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cooke from Conrad Loddiges Botanical Cabinet, Hackney, 1825

Great blue turaco, Corythaeola cristata. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rene Primevere Lessons Complements de Buffon, Pourrat Freres, Paris, 1838

Red-legged seriema or crested cariama, Cariama cristata (Brazilian cariama, Palamedea cristata). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds

Young girl from the environs of Bamberg, Franconia, Germany, 19th century. In her Sunday clothes on her way to church, holding a prayer book, with her throat covered by a scarf

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