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)

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

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

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)

The Mermaid “at Home!” (1809)

José Guadalupe Posada’s Engravings of Unusual Births (ca. 1880–1910)

George Baxter’s Print of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs (ca. 1854)

A Wetted Beak: Engravings from Pauline Knip’s Les Pigeons (1811)

Alfred G. Mayer’s On the Color and Color-Patterns of Moths and Butterflies (1897)

“How He Came to Life One Day”: Photographs of Snowmen (1854–1950)

Fantastic Planet: The Microscopy Album of Marinus Pieter Filbri (1887–88)

Diagramming Dante: Michelangelo Caetani’s Maps of the Divina Commedia (1855/1872)

Anton Seder’s The Animal in Decorative Art (1896)

A Very Tall Tale: Photograph of the Cardiff Giant (ca. 1869)

Antiquities of Mexico (1831–48)

Thomas Eakins’ Photograph of a Dissected Horse’s Leg (ca. 1885)

Looking Backward: Images of Rückenfiguren (ca. 1497–1925)

The Lens of Desire: Eye Miniatures (ca. 1790–1810)

Love Spells and Deadly Shrieks: Illustrations of Mandrakes (ca. 650–1927)