Wayang Kulit: Raden Soelardi’s Illustrations of Javanese Puppets (1919)

Perverse, Grotesque, Sensuous, Inimitable: A Selection of Works by Aubrey Beardsley

The Nature of the Beast: Charles le Brun’s Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)

The Shadow of Desire: Painting the Origins of Art (ca. 1625–1850)

Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724)

Drawing on Tradition: Elena Izcue’s Peruvian Art in the School (1926)

Nikolai Agnivtsev’s Little Screw (1925)

The Mermaid “at Home!” (1809)

What Is It Like to Be a Bass? Fish-Eye View Photography (1919–22)

A Wetted Beak: Engravings from Pauline Knip’s Les Pigeons (1811)

Alfred G. Mayer’s On the Color and Color-Patterns of Moths and Butterflies (1897)

Diagramming Dante: Michelangelo Caetani’s Maps of the Divina Commedia (1855/1872)

Etching of a Sámi Drum from the Dutch Edition of Johannes Schefferus’ Lapponia (1682)

Among the Moss Piglets: The First Image of a Tardigrade (1773)

Johannes Hartlieb’s Book of Herbs (1462)

Raffaele Mainella’s Illustrations for Nos Invisibles (1907)

Looking Backward: Images of Rückenfiguren (ca. 1497–1925)

Love Spells and Deadly Shrieks: Illustrations of Mandrakes (ca. 650–1927)

Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater’s Occult Chemistry (1908)

Maria Sibylla Merian’s Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (1705)

Sheet Music Covers for the Gotham-Attucks Company, ca. 1905–1911

Clear Shadows (1867)

Ikkyū in Hell: Skeletons (1692)

Charles H. Bennett’s Shadows (ca. 1856)