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)

Music in the Margins: The Funeral of Reynard the Fox (13th century)

The Concealed Erotic Paintings of Sommonte (19th Century)

Alexander Graham Bell’s Tetrahedral Kites (1903–9)

Geographical Fun: Being Humourous Outlines of Various Countries (1868)

The Flower of Battle: Italian Fighting Manual (ca. 1410)

Photographs of Sea Stars (1917)

The War Art of Paul Nash (1917–1944)

The Maps of Matrakçı Nasuh, Ottoman Polymath

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

The Spinning Sow (1673)

Images from the First Colour Publication on Fish (1754)

Edward Curtis’ Photographs of Kwakwaka’wakw Ceremonial Dress and Masks (ca. 1914)

Aratea: Making Pictures with Words in the 9th Century

Images from Johann Zahn’s Oculus Artificialis (1685)

Marcus Selmer’s Photographs of 19th-Century Norwegians

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

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

W. E. B. Du Bois’ Hand-Drawn Infographics of African-American Life (1900)

The City of Truth, or, Ethics (1609)

Miniatures from a 12th-century Medical and Herbal Collection