Diagramming Dante: Michelangelo Caetani’s Maps of the Divina Commedia (1855/1872)
"O Uommibatto": How the Pre-Raphaelites Became Obsessed with the Wombat
Mesmerising Science: The Franklin Commission and the Modern Clinical Trial
Made in Taiwan? How a Frenchman Fooled 18th-Century London
The Secret History of Holywell Street, Home to Victorian London’s Dirty Book Trade: Victorian Sexuality Is Often Considered Synonymous With Prudishness, Conjuring Images of Covered-Up Piano Legs and Dark Ankle-Length Skirts. Historian Matthew Green Uncovers a Quite Different Scene in the Sordid Story of Holywell St, 19th-Century London’s Epicentre of Erotica and Smut.
Illustrations of Madness: James Tilly Matthews and the Air Loom
All Sound Recordings Prior to 1923 Will Enter the US Public Domain in 2022
Alexander Graham Bell’s Tetrahedral Kites (1903–9) [image gallery]
Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art (1853)
Lewis Carroll’s Illustrations for Alice’s Adventures Under Ground (1864)
D. A. Rovinskii’s Collection of Russian Lubki (18th–19th Century)
‘Clouds of Unknowing’: Edward Quin’s Historical Atlas (1830)
Henrique Alvim Corrêa’s Illustrations for The War of the Worlds (1906)
Resurrection on Repeat: Rules and Orders of the Humane Society (1787)
Early Illustrations of the Nervous System by Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón Y Cajal
Images from Japanese Design Magazine Shin-Bijutsukai (1902)
Flowers of Fire: Illustrations from Japanese Fireworks Catalogues (ca. 1880s)
Ancient Courses: Harold Fisk’s Meander Maps of the Mississippi River (1944)
An Iconic Line: Claude Mellan’s The Sudarium of Saint Veronica (1649)
Albert Millican’s Travels and Adventures of an Orchid Hunter
Joseph Perry’s Medical Illustrations of Miscarriage (1834)
True Crime: Allan Pinkerton’s Thirty Years a Detective (1884)
The Reverse of a Framed Painting, and Other Trompe L’oeil by Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts (ca. 1670)
Unnatural Selection: Emil Schachtzabel’s Pigeon Prachtwerk (1906)
Serviette Sculptures: Mattia Giegher’s Treatise on Napkin Folding (1629)
Solid Objects: 16th-Century Geometric and Perspective Drawings
W. W. Denslow’s Illustrations for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
A Bestiary of Sir Thomas Browne: Hugh Aldersey-Williams Takes a Tour through Thomas Browne‘s Pseudodoxia Epidemica, a Work Which Sees One of the 17th-Century’s Greatest Writers Stylishly Debunk All Manner of Myths, in Particular Those Relating to the World of Animals.
Cuttings from a Medieval Italian Choirbook: The British Library—James Freeman Explores Cuttings from a Huge 14th Century Italian Choirbook and How Digital Technology Is Now Helping Scholars Build a Picture of the Once Intact Original through Virtually Reuniting the ‘Diaspora’ of Fragments.
Eastern Sports and Western Bodies: The ‘Indian Club’ in the United States
Its Dizzy Heights May Have Passed, but the Fad for Adult Coloring Books Is far from Over. Many Trace the Origins of Such Publications to a Wave of Satirical Coloring Books Published in the 1960s, but As Melissa N. Morris and Zach Carmichael Explore, the Existence of Such Books, and the Urge to Color the Printed Image, Goes Back Centuries.
Get Thee to a Phalanstery: Or, How Fourier Can Still Teach Us to Make Lemonade
In Praise of Halvings: Hidden Histories of Japan Excavated by Dr D. Fenberger
John L. Sullivan Fights America: In 1883, the Irish-American Heavy-Weight Boxing Champion John L. Sullivan Embarked on an Unprecedented Coast-To-Coast Tour of the United States Offering a Prize to Any Person Who Could Endure Four Rounds With Him in the Ring. Christopher Klein Tells of This Remarkable Journey and How the Railroads and the Rise of the Popular Press Proved Instrumental in Forging Sullivan into America’s First Sports Superstar.
Marxist Astronomy: The Milky Way According to Anton Pannekoek
Our Masterpiece Is the Private Life: In Pursuit of the ‘Real’ Chateaubriand
Petrarch’s Plague: Love, Death, and Friendship in a Time of Pandemic
Petrified Waters: The Artificial Grottoes of the Renaissance and Beyond
Picturing a Voice: Margaret Watts Hughes and the Eidophone
From Fire Hazards to Family Trees: The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
Stuffed Ox, Dummy Tree, Artificial Rock: Deception in the Work of Richard and Cherry Kearton
The Art of Making Debts: Accounting for an Obsession in 19th-Century France
‘The Mark of the Beast’: Georgian Britain’s Anti-Vaxxer Movement
Why Do We so Seldom See People Smiling in Painted Portraits? Nicholas Jeeves Explores the History of the Smile through the Ages of Portraiture, from Da Vinci's Mona Lisa to Alexander Gardner's Photographs of Abraham Lincoln.
W. B. O’Shaughnessy and the Introduction of Cannabis to Modern Western Medicine
How European Royals Once Shared Their Most Important Secrets
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