Polar bear Ursus maritimus – an engraved hand-coloured print by Karl Brodtmann, 1816 art poster canvas canvas gift in 1843. Battle of Trafalgar plan map chart met near La Belle Alliance

met near La Belle Alliance

It is believed that in 1787 John Fairburn has produced the oldest printed Valentine's Day card

and explorers

published by Sebastian Munster in his "Cosmographia" in 1544

The monster was longer than our whole ship"

Polar bear Ursus maritimus – an engraved hand-coloured print by Karl Brodtmann, 1816 art poster canvas canvas gift in 1843. Battle of Trafalgar plan map chart met near La Belle AlliancePolar bear Ursus maritimus Georgian engraved and hand coloured print by Karl Joseph Brodtmann, published in 1816 in his Naturhistorische Bilder Gallerie aus dem Thierreiche natural history volume. Karl Joseph (Ioseph) Brodtmann (1787 1862) was an accomplished Swiss artist and lithographer, as well as a printmaker, publisher and bookseller who worked in Zurich and Schaffhausen. He produced his lithographs in the post Linnaean "'Age of Enlightenment" as