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    Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies (1757–95)
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    Love & Lust

    Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies (1757–95)

    A Vanishing Nova: *Uranographia Britannica* (ca. 1749)
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    Science & Medicine, Astronomy & Space

    A Vanishing Nova: Uranographia Britannica (ca. 1749)

    Knowledge by the Pound: *The Renowned History of Giles Gingerbread* (1768)
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    Communication

    Knowledge by the Pound: The Renowned History of Giles Gingerbread (1768)

    Judith Sargent Murray’s *On the Equality of the Sexes* (1790)
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    Politics, Love & Lust

    Judith Sargent Murray’s On the Equality of the Sexes (1790)

    Resurrection on Repeat: *Rules and Orders of the Humane Society* (1787)
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    Death, Science & Medicine, Technology

    Resurrection on Repeat: Rules and Orders of the Humane Society (1787)

    Reciting Pictures: Buddhist Texts for the Illiterate
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    Customs & Culture, Communication, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Reciting Pictures: Buddhist Texts for the Illiterate

    Between Frogs and Gods: Illustrations of Physiognomy
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    Animals & Beasts, Science & Medicine, Emotion & Expression

    Between Frogs and Gods: Illustrations of Physiognomy

    Snowball Fights in Art (1400–1946)
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    Customs & Culture, Sport & Exercise

    Snowball Fights in Art (1400–1946)

    *Clavis Artis* by “Zoroaster”
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    Animals & Beasts, Ghosts & Occult, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Clavis Artis by “Zoroaster”

    A Modest Apology for the Man in the Bottle (1749)
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    Strange Phenomena

    A Modest Apology for the Man in the Bottle (1749)

    700 Years of Dante’s *Divine Comedy* in Art
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    Religion, Myth & Legend

    700 Years of Dante’s Divine Comedy in Art

    John Singleton Copley’s *Watson and the Shark* (1778)
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    Animals & Beasts, Stories

    John Singleton Copley’s Watson and the Shark (1778)

    Seeking Enlightenment: Denis Diderot’s *Letter on the Blind* (1749)
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    Customs & Culture

    Seeking Enlightenment: Denis Diderot’s Letter on the Blind (1749)

    William Blake’s *The Gates of Paradise* (1787-93)
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    Religion, Myth & Legend

    William Blake’s The Gates of Paradise (1787-93)

    A Book of Stone: Adam Wirsing’s Marmora (1776)
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    Natural World

    A Book of Stone: Adam Wirsing’s Marmora (1776)

    Filippo Morghen’s Fantastical Visions of Lunar Life (1776)
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    Astronomy & Space

    Filippo Morghen’s Fantastical Visions of Lunar Life (1776)

    William Hogarth’s Satire on False Perspective (1754)
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    Geometry & Diagrams, Music & Arts, Architecture

    William Hogarth’s Satire on False Perspective (1754)

    Thomas Wright’s An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe (1750)
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    Astronomy & Space

    Thomas Wright’s An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe (1750)

    Greek Masquerade (1771)
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    Architecture, Fashion

    Greek Masquerade (1771)

    Filippo Buonanni’s Harmonic Cabinet (1722)
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    Technology, Music & Arts

    Filippo Buonanni’s Harmonic Cabinet (1722)

    Joseph Ducreux’s Self-Portraits (ca. 1790)
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    Emotion & Expression

    Joseph Ducreux’s Self-Portraits (ca. 1790)

    “A Slight Freshness on the Neck”: Prints Depicting the Execution of Louis XVI (ca. 1793)
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    Death, Politics

    “A Slight Freshness on the Neck”: Prints Depicting the Execution of Louis XVI (ca. 1793)

    Plague Doctor Costumes
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    Death, Science & Medicine

    Plague Doctor Costumes

    “Firelight Flickering on the Ceiling of the World”: The Aurora Borealis in Art
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    Natural World

    “Firelight Flickering on the Ceiling of the World”: The Aurora Borealis in Art