Hokusai’s Ghost Stories (ca. 1830)
Hokusai’s five ghoulish prints for the series Hyaku Monogatari [One Hundred Ghost Stories]….more
Hokusai’s five ghoulish prints for the series Hyaku Monogatari [One Hundred Ghost Stories]….more
Haeckel’s stunning illustrations of medusae, in whose ethereal forms he glimpsed a reflection of his first wife, who died tragically at the age of 29….more
Japanese woodcuts from a series by Kamekichi Tsunajima titled “Ryūkō eigo zukushi”, showing images of animals, activities and objects each with their Japanese…more
Series of fantastic anthropomorphic maps of European countries, each footnoted by a witty quatrain, was produced by London publisher Hodder and Stoughton in the 186…more
Propaganda cartoons from the pen of Japanese artist Kobayashi Kiyochika….more
Selection of images illustrating on the idea that one’s life can be thought of as divisible into distinct stages….more
A selection of Yokohama-e (literally “Yokohama pictures”), a type of ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock print which focused on depicting the foreigners who flooded thro…more
A set of Japanese prints depicting famous Western inventors and scholars – including Audubon, Carlyle, Watt, and Arkright – beset by various difficulties….more
Woodcut print showing forty-eight numbered scenes relating to the life of Charles IV, King of Spain….more
Deriving from the Spanish word for ‘skulls’, these calaveras were illustrations featuring skeletons which would, after Posada’s death, become closely associated wit…more
A selection of copper engravings featured in Dutch explorer, missionary, and theologian Arnoldus Montanus’ monumental De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld, 1671….more
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