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)

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

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

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

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

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

Theodor de Bry’s Engravings for Thomas Harriot’s Briefe and True Report (1590)

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

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

Grotesqueries at Gethsemane: Marcus Gheeraerts’ Passio Verbigenae (ca. 1580)

Flemish Proverbs by Jan Wierix (ca. 1568)

Paper Gems: Early Modern Blackwork Prints

The Works of Mars (1671)

Wheels Within Wheels: The “Flammarion Engraving” (ca. 1888)

Visualising Bubbles (1500–1906)

A Hall of Mirrors: Cabala, Spiegel Der Kunst Und Natur, In Alchymia (1615)

Bruegel the Elder’s Big Fish Eat Little Fish (1556)

A Renaissance Riddle: The Sola Busca Tarot Deck (1491)

Between Frogs and Gods: Illustrations of Physiognomy

Snowball Fights in Art (1400–1946)

Joseph Perry’s Medical Illustrations of Miscarriage (1834)

An Iconic Line: Claude Mellan’s The Sudarium of Saint Veronica (1649)

“When London is in Ruins”: Gustave Doré’s The New Zealander (1872)