Doing Impressions: Monet’s Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)

Calicornication: Postcards of Giant Produce (1909)

Deceit and Disrobing: The Schefer Maqāmāt (BNF Arabe 5847, ca. 1237)

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

Vanity of Vanities: Fool’s Cap Map of the World (ca. 1585)

Charles H. Bennett’s Shadows (ca. 1856)

C. P. Cranch’s Very Literal Illustrations of Emerson’s Nature (ca. 1837–39)

“March of Intellect” Cartoons (1828–29)

Figure/Ground: Alphonse Allais’ April Fools Album (1897)

Don Quixote in the 20th Century (ca. 1905)

Edward Lear’s Nonsense Botany (1871–77)

John Milton’s Frontispiece Prank

The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel (1565)

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

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

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

Kobayashi Kiyochika’s Cartoons of the Russo-Japanese War (1904–5)

Hypnotism Posters (ca. 1900)

New Elucidations of Thomson’s Seasons (1822)

Edward Lear’s Walk on a Windy Day (1860)

Rhyming Drugstore Advertisements (1885)