Elizabeth I’s Manuscript Copy of Pierre Boaistuau’s Histoires Prodigieuses (1559)

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

Calicornication: Postcards of Giant Produce (1909)

Wayang Kulit: Raden Soelardi’s Illustrations of Javanese Puppets (1919)

Unbridled Passions: The Eight Horses of King Mu, Son of Heaven (ca. 1300)

Snail Homes, Bog Bodies, and Mechanical Flies: Robert Testard’s Illustrations for Les secretz de l’histoire naturelle (ca. 1485)

Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832)

Flights of Fancy: The Nine Birds of Jacques de Fornazeris (1594)

A Prophet of the Weather: Lantern Slides by Clement Lindley Wragge (ca. 1900–22)

Nature Morte: Chaïm Soutine’s Still Lifes (ca. 1920s)

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

“Quaint Dessert Dishes” in American Homes and Gardens (1911)

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)