Victoria's Rusty Knickers

‘Gramen paniculatum’ - Plate published in Sébastien Vaillant’s ‘Botanicon Parisiense’ - 1727

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Flamingo - Illustration from the Natural History of Carolina by Mark Catesby - published in the early 1700s

The Fire Coral - Millepora mineacea - which is technically not a coral but a close relative of jellyfish and stinging anemones. 

Illustration from Esper’s ‘Pflanzenthiere’ (Zoophytes) - 1766

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Dorothy Jordan - Irish Actress and Mistress of King William IV. Mezzotint after John Hoppner 1791

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A Wolf

Etching by Balthasar Anton Dunkler - from ‘Livre de divers animaux pour dessus de portes par les meilleurs maitres.’ - 1700s

‘Premiere Planche des Lepas’, from Dezallier D’Argenville’s first edition of ‘La Conchyliologie’, published in 1757

Blue Underwing, or Clifden Nonpareil - from ‘Beschouwing der wonderen Gods’, published in 1762

‘Arise, dead one, and come to Judgement.’

Illustration from Jacques Gamelin’s ‘Nouveau Recueil d’Ostéologie et de Myologie’ - 1774

Plate XLII. Sun and Eclipses, from the Encyclopædia Britannica, 1771

A London Bedstead Manufacturer’s Trade Card - 1770s

Sunshine, honey and buttercups! Why did menswear like this have to go out of style…

Gents’ coat, lace pattern silk brocade with elaborate floral and leaf motifs, gold ribbon trimming and tassels. The coat was worn by a member of the Morgan family, Tredegar Park, Newport, Wales - around 1725.

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Monsieur Pomet’s “A compleat History of Druggs - With their Use in Physick, Chymistry, Pharmacy and several other Arts.” - published in 1712

Frog, by August Johann Roesel von Rosenhof 1758 via Wellcome Images