Illustration from Les Etoiles by JJ Grandville, published 1849.

Illustration of La Mauvais Etoile by JJ Grandville - 1849

From Les Etoiles by JJ Grandville, published 1849.

Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 36, The Tyger (Bentley 42) William Blake - 1789 to 1794

Cat Pawing at Goldfish - c. early 1770s - by Isoda Koryusai

A young man and a young woman with her breasts exposed are seated on a settee; table with two glasses in the foreground. Woodcut, ca. 1780. Wellcome Collection - by John F. Nugent.

Höllandischer Cacao - Erven Caspar Flick by Johann Georg van Caspel, 1897

Keisnijder (the Feeling), anonymous, after Petrus Staverenus, after Jan Verkolje (I) - 1670 - 1800

A Woman and a Cat by Kitagawa Utamaro - ca. 1793–94

God Judging Adam by William Blake - c. 1795.

Compendium of Demonology and Magic, 1775 - (Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae sistematisatae per celeberrimos Artis hujus Magistros. Anno 1057. Noli me tangere, 1775.)

Compendium of Demonology and Magic, 1775  (Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae sistematisatae per celeberrimos Artis hujus Magistros. Anno 1057. Noli me tangere, 1775.)

Leo by Johann Bayer - 1603.

Aulostoma chinense - 1700-1880 - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections University of Amsterdam.

Two stag beetles crawling over a map of the world underneath a large mandible. Coloured etching by George Edwards, 1694-1773. Wellcome Collection.

The entrance to hell guarded by Sin and Death. Stipple engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1792, after Thomas Stothard.

Dulle Griet (Mad Meg) entering hell. Mezzotint by Richard Earlom after David Teniers, 1786. Wellcome Collection

William Blake : The Soul Hovering Over the Body [from Marriage of Heaven and Hell, plate 14] c. 1796, relief etching Washington DC

The actor Sotani Oniji II as Yakko Edobei - Sharaku, Part of the series Portraits of actors at three theaters in Edo, 1794 - Tokyo National Museum.

The actor Sakata Hangoro III as the villain Fujikawa Mizuemon, Part of the series Portraits of actors at three theaters in Edo, 1794 - Tokyo National Museum.

The Man of Letters, or Pierrot’s Alphabet - typeface (designer unknown) - 1794, Bowles & Carver, UK.

Isaac Cruikshank : Print shows a number of men and women each with a particular problem that seems to be troubling them, they contrive a solution which leads to the remark, "that accounts for it." Date: 1799.

Young Man Smoking with a Courtesan by Kitagawa Utamaro, 1799.

Illustration showing a rattle-snake (Vipera caudisona Americana). Inset are the rattle with 24 joints, a cross-section of the rattle, and a tooth or fang through which venom passes when the snake bites its prey. The colour of the head of this rattle-snake is brown, the eye red, the upper part of the body a brownish-yellow, transversely marked with irregular broad black stripes. The rattle is of a brown colour - 1731.

Antonio de Leon y Gama - Aztec Sun Calendar.

First drawing in the book "Descripción histórica y cronológica de las dos piedras que con ocasión del nuevo empedrado que se está formando en la plaza principal de México, se hallaron en ella el año de 1790" (or "Historical and chronological description of the two stones found during the new paving of the Mexico's main plaza." in English ) by Antonio de Leon y Gama (1792). The book describes Aztec calendars and specifically the discovery of the Aztec calendar stone in México.

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Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae sistematisatae per celeberrimos Artis hujus Magistros – Compendium of Demonology and Magic , written in German and Italian, ca. 1775.

Folio 19 recto. Wellcome Library

Clavis Artis Alchemical Manuscript - 2-27.Hortis.V3.116

Clavis Artis' is the title of an alchemical manuscript published in Germany in three volumes in the late 17th or early 18th century, attributed to Zoroaster (Zarathustra). It features numerous watercolor illustrations depicting alchemical images, as well as pen drawings of laboratory instruments Biblioteca dell'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome

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Katsukawa Shunsho (勝川 春章 Japanese, 1726-1792), The actors Ichikawa Danjuro V as a skeleton, spirit of the renegade monk Seigen (left), and Iwai Hanshiro IV as Princess Sakura (right), in the joruri "Sono Omokage Matsu ni Sakura (Vestiges of Pine and Cherry)," from part two of the play "Edo no Hana Mimasu Soga (Flower of Edo: An Ichikawa Soga)," performed at the Nakamura Theater from the first day of the second month, 1783. Art Institute of Chicago

Utagawa Toyoharu : Nakano-chō Street in the Shin Yoshiwara Entertainment Quarter, early 1770s .

Utagawa Toyoharu, Nakano-chō Street in the Shin Yoshiwara Entertainment Quarter Alternate Title: 新吉原中ノ町之図 Series: Perspective Views of Japanese Scenes , Japan, early 1770s . Colour woodblock print, 24.92 × 37.47 cm. LACMA (M.71.100.152).

Maria Sibylla Merian : Surinam Caiman biting South American False Coral Snake, 1719  - The Getty , LA.

Goya - Pretty Teacher! From Los Caprichos - 1799.

Francisco Goya y Lucientes , Pretty Teacher! Alternate Title: ¡Linda maestra!
Portfolio: Los Caprichos, plate 68 Spain, 1799.

Etching, burnished aquatint and drypoint Image: 7 3/8 × 4 7/8 in. (18.73 × 12.38 cm) LACMA (63.11.68).

Goya - What a Golden Beak! From Los Caprichos, 1799

Francisco Goya y Lucientes , What a golden beak! Alternate Title: ¡Que pico de oro! Portfolio: Los Caprichos, plate 53 Spain, 1799 Prints; etchings Etching, burnished aquatint and burin , 21.27 × 13.65 cm . LACMA (63.11.53).

Plans of the top of Mount Vesuvius, July - Oct 1767 – Sir William Hamilton.

Sir William Hamilton - Campi Phlegraei. Observations on the volcanos of the two Sicilies as they have been communicated to the Royal Society of London / by Sir William Hamilton... with 54 plates ... from drawings taken ... by the editor, Mr. P. Fabris.--Observations sur les volcans des deux Siciles, etc., Naples 1776.

Goya - Might not the pupil know more? , From Los Caprichos, 1799 by
Francisco Goya y Lucientes - Might not the pupil know more ? Alternate Title: ¿Si sabrá mas el discipulo? Portfolio: Los Caprichos, plate 37 Spain, 1799
Etching , aquatint and burin (20.32 × 12.38 cm. LACMA (63.11.37).

Ogata Kōrin : Rough Waves, Year c. 1704 – c. 1709 Medium Two-panel byōbu (folding screen) Ink and paint on gilded paper Dimensions 146.5 cm × 165.4 cm (57.7 in × 65.1 in) Location Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Accession 26.117.

William Blake : Frontispiece to The Song of Los, copy B, in the collection of the Library of Congress. Leaf size 32.0 x 24.0 cm. 1795.

Interior view of the crater of Mount Vesuvius, Sir William Hamilton before 1767 (Wellcome L0050591)

Sir William Hamilton - Campi Phlegraei. Observations on the volcanos of the two Sicilies as they have been communicated to the Royal Society of London / by Sir William Hamilton... with 54 plates ... from drawings taken ... by the editor, Mr. P. Fabris.--Observations sur les volcans des deux Siciles, etc., Naples 1776.

Description of the historic Montgolfier Brothers' 1783 balloon flight. Illustration with engineering proportions and description., published 1786

Translation: Figure and exact proportions of the "Aerostatic Globe", which was the first to first carry men through the air.

J. F. Gautier D'Agoty - Anatomie de la tete (Wellcome Institute).

Dissection of the brain showing blood-vessels; after dissections by J.F. Duverney and Pierre Tarin, 1746-48