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)

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