Photographs of (models of) the moon (1874)

Kumataro Ito’s Illustrations of Nudibranchs from the USS Albatross’ Philippine Expedition (ca. 1908)

John Milton’s Frontispiece Prank

Drawings of Tetradons and Diodons (ca. 1838–42)

Images from German “Caterpillar Calendar” (1837)

On the Disposition of Iron in Variegated Strata (1868)

Émile-Antoine Bayard’s Illustrations for Around the Moon by Jules Verne (1870)

Illustrations from the Lights of Canopus (1847)

William Sharp’s Chromolithographs of The Great Water Lily (1854)

The Maps of Matrakçı Nasuh, Ottoman Polymath

Images from the First Colour Publication on Fish (1754)

Yellow Journalism: The “Fake News” of the 19th Century

A Selection from The MET’s Public Domain Collection, Now Free from All Restrictions

The Human Alphabet

Illustrations from a Descriptive Iconography of Cacti (1841)

Kobayashi Kiyochika’s Cartoons of the Russo-Japanese War (1904–5)

A Vision of Isolating Technology from 1906

The Postures of the Mouth (1846)

The Art of Hidden Faces: Anthropomorphic Landscapes

Self-Portrait by Ernst Mach (1886)

NYPL Release 187k Public Domain Images in Hi-Res

The Telephonoscope (1879)

Georg Bartisch’s Ophthalmodouleia (1583)

Illustrations from an Italian Book of Proverbs (1718)