Rene Gallery

Green-throated carib, Eulampis holosericeus. Male adult

Green-throated carib, Eulampis holosericeus (Trochilus holosericeus). Male adult. Handcolored steel engraving by Coutant after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Rene Primevere Lesson's Natural History of the Colibri Genus of Hummingbirds, Histoire Naturelle des Colibris, Arthus Betrand, Paris, 1830. Date:

© Florilegius/Mary Evans

Le Devoir de Tuer by Rene Berton

Le Devoir de Tuer by Rene Berton (born in 1872 and died in 1934). Rene Berton was a French physician, known for his plays. Le Devoir de Tuer translated is The Duty to KIll'. The word nevrose is written across the centre, meaning neurosis'. Flyer for Theatre Du Grand Guignol. The date is unknown. Date: 1900s ?

© The Michael Diamond Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library

View of a Fuli town and plantations, Senegambia

View of a Fuli or Fula town and plantations, Senegambia, 18th century. Circular walled village of the Fuli people. With cattle and guard house at left, rows of huts in centre, cotton field around huts, and maize field at right. Town and plantation of the Fulahs. After Thomas Astley's illustration in A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels, London, 1746. After Rene Claude Geoffroy de Villeneuve's l'Afrique, Paris, 1814. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving from Frederic Shoberl's The World in Miniature: Africa, A description of the manners and customs Moors of the Sahara and of the Negro Nations, R. Ackermann, England, 1821

© Florilegius