Highlights from the CMA’s release of more than 34,000 digital images of public domain works — all high resolution and free from restrictions on reuse….more
Robert Fludd’s alphabet of correspondences, where each letter and number is paired with an object which echoes its shape….more
Confronted with a bad frontispiece portrait of himself Milton enacted a very literary revenge on the engraver….more
Harmonia Macrocosmica (1660), an atlas of the stars from the Dutch Golden Age of cartography, maps the structure of the heavens in twenty-nine extraordinary double-…more
Collection of allegorical maps (17th–19th century) charting that heady territory of love, courtship, and marriage….more
Wonderful examples of “fore-edge painting”, where an illustration or design appears on the “fore-edge” of a book….more
California used to be thought of as an island. This stunning collection of 17th- and 18th-century maps illustrates how….more
The egg dance was a traditional Easter game involving the laying down of eggs on the ground or floor and dancing among them whilst trying to break as few as possibl…more
Highlights from a book of 120 woodcuts depicting a series of fantastically bizarre and grotesque figures, reminiscent of some of the more inventive and twisted crea…more
17th-century Dutch engraving showing a team of pigs spinning cotton, while in the corner a woman — who’d normally be associated with the work — sleeps….more
The excellent engravings from Johann Zahn’s early and comprehensive account of the function and usage of a number of optical instruments, including the camera obscu…more
We present our highlights from the lesser known corners of The Metropolitan Museum’s public domain collection, now made available free from restrictions on use….more