The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel (1565)

The Whims (1799) and The Follies (1815–23) of Francisco Goya

Public and Private Life of Animals (1877)

Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote (1867)

Arcimboldo-esque Composite Portraits of Trades (ca. 1800)

Maniac Chase (1904)

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

The Confidence-Man (1857)

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

Hypnotism Posters (ca. 1900)

New Elucidations of Thomson’s Seasons (1822)

Chrysal; or, The Adventures of a Guinea (1760)

The Cheese Mites or, Lilliputians in a London Restaurant (1901)

Thomas Edison Tells a Joke about a Liver (1906)

“Interruptions” performed by Tom Woottwell (1909)

Thackerayana (1875)

Pictures of Life and Character from the collection of Mr Punch (1887)

17 Numbered Lists from History

One Got Fat: Bicycle Safety (1963)

Artistic Creation (1901)

A Meditation upon a Broomstick (1711)

Dame Talkative’s Old Sayings (ca.1824)

The Bouncer at the Blazing Rag (1902)

Edward Lear’s Walk on a Windy Day (1860)