Henri Rivière’s Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower (1888–1902)

Perverse, Grotesque, Sensuous, Inimitable: A Selection of Works by Aubrey Beardsley

Animal Costumes from the 1862 Fairytale Ball of the Jung-München Artist’s Association

Paramaribo and the Plantation: Gerrit Schouten’s Dioramas of Suriname (1810–30)

The Nature of the Beast: Charles le Brun’s Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)

The Shadow of Desire: Painting the Origins of Art (ca. 1625–1850)

Ivan Aivazovsky’s Miniature Seascapes (ca. 1887)

The Cat’s Maew: Thai Treatise on Auspicious Felines (19th Century)

Flowers of Fealty: Wilhelm Dilich’s Commemoration of the Christening of Elisabeth of Hesse (1598)

The Mowing-Devil (1678), or, the Earliest Known Depiction of a Crop Circle

The “Private” Photographs of Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg (ca. 1895–1903)

The Language of Form: Lothar Schreyer’s Kreuzigung (1920)

Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724)

Bernard Sleigh’s Anciente Mappe of Fairyland (ca. 1920 edition)

Gilded Fish: Illustrations from Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine (1780)

Mudpots and Fumaroles: Lithographs of Yellowstone’s Thermal Springs (1883)

Tangled Dürer: The Six Knots (ca. before 1521)

Oskar Kokoschka, Hermine Moos, and the Alma Mahler Doll

Photographs of the Samaritan Passover on Mount Gerizim (1917)

Sheet Mewsic: Moritz von Schwind’s Katzensymphonie (1868)

“The Form of a Demon and the Heart of a Person”: Kitagawa Utamaro’s Prints of Yamauba and Kintarō (ca. 1800)

Through a Glass Lushly: Michalina Janoszanka’s Reverse Paintings (ca. 1920s)

The Mermaid “at Home!” (1809)

Master of Claude de France’s Book of Flower Studies (ca. 1510–1515)