Oktober 1905 cover of Hototogisu magazine by Nakamura Fusetsu.

Number 1 of volume 9 (October 1905) of the literary monthly Hototogisu: cover depicting a winged horse against an orange background; inside: frontispiece of market stall with seller; back, image of mother with two children. - Rijksmuseum

'FROMMES KALENDER' (Fromme’s Calendar) - advertisement for Viennese calendar published by Carl Fromme), 1899 - by Koloman Moser.

Moser’s heavily stylised portrait for ‘Fromme’s Kalendar’ is dominated by the sidelong stare of a mysterious woman whose air of cold clairvoyance is in accord with the artistic temperament of the times. Gazing past the hourglass that she lifts like a sacred chalice or sacrificial offering, this archetypal mystic could easily have been modelled after a young Madame Blavatsky, the Russian occultist philosopher and co-founder of the Theosophical Society, whose esoteric ideas about Ancient Wisdom were shaping the artistic attitudes of everyone from Piet Mondrian to Kazimir Malevich, Wassily Kandinsky to Hilma af Klint.

Designed in 1899, as an increasingly industrialising world braced itself for the uncertainties of a new century, Moser’s enigmatic portrait vibrates with anxiety about what lies ahead for mankind. To judge from the diminishing volume of sand in the upper bulb of the hourglass, time is quickly running out. As our eyes swivel from that ominous timepiece to the curvilinear ribbons and tresses that flow from the seer’s temples, a cascade that merges into her shadowy physique, we begin to suspect that our elusive woman is less an actual figure in the here-and-now and more a kind of cursive character to be read – a symbol, perhaps even an ancient one, of riddling portent. - BBC

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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Diagram for Sunday – detail , from Ms. Ludwig XII 8 , Anatomical-Physiological Description of Men; Liber Synonimorum; Descriptions of Planets, Zodiacs, and Comets; Treatises on Divination from Names, etc., German, shortly after 1464 – Unknown Illuminator 
Watercolour and ink on paper (Place Created) , ca, 1464 .Watercolor and ink on paper bound between original wood boards covered with original pigskin Getty Museum , LA Ms. Ludwig XII 8 (83.MO.137), fol. 53v Dimensions: Leaf: 30.6 × 22.1 cm (12 1/16 × 8 11/16 in.)