Highlights from Folger Shakespeare Library’s Release of almost 80,000 Images

John Wanamaker recounts a Leo Tolstoy anecdote (1908)

Women Painters of the World: from the time of Caterina Vigri to Rosa Bonheur (1905)

Account of a Very Remarkable Young Musician (1769)

A Pamphlet on Verdi (1901)

Frederick Whitney’s Blackboard Sketching (1909)

On the Writing of the Insane (1870)

The Sonnets of Michelangelo (1904 edition)

What to Draw and How to Draw It (1913)

Dances in Beauchamp-Feuillet Notation (1701)

Farmer plays a song with ‘hand-farts’ (1933)

Musaeum Clausum (1684)

A Theory of Pure Design: Harmony, Balance, Rhythm (1907)

Buffalo Dance (1894)

Art in Art