Swedish House-Gymnastics (1913)

The Egg Dance: From Peasant Village to Political Caricature

The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel (1565)

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

Adeline Harris Sears’ Autographs Quilt (1856–ca.1863)

Steam-Powered Tooth Extraction on an Envelope (1894)

Details from Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss (1908)

Curiosities from the Museum of Giovanni Carafa (1778)

A Collection of Fashionable English Words (1887)

Images from German “Caterpillar Calendar” (1837)

George Mayerle’s Eye Test Chart (ca. 1907)

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

The “Salad Oil Style” of Jan Toorop

Diagrams from Dr Alesha Sivartha’s Book of Life (1898)

The Model Book of Calligraphy (1561–1596)

Alphonse Bertillon’s Synoptic Table of Physiognomic Traits (ca. 1909)

The Civil War Sketches of Adolph Metzner (1861–64)

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)

Chladni Figures (1787)

Kusakabe Kimbei’s Photographs of Late 19th-Century Japan

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

The Heart of Man; Either a Temple of God, or a Habitation of Satan; Represented in Ten Emblematical Figures (1851)