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    Looking Backward: Images of *Rückenfiguren* (ca. 1497–1925)
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    Landscapes, Music & Arts

    Looking Backward: Images of Rückenfiguren (ca. 1497–1925)

    Maria Catharina Prestel’s Printed Cabinet of Drawings (ca. 1780s)
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    Music & Arts, Landscapes

    Maria Catharina Prestel’s Printed Cabinet of Drawings (ca. 1780s)

    Peking Opera Characters (ca. 1900)
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    Customs & Culture, Music & Arts

    Peking Opera Characters (ca. 1900)

    Beetle Carapaces in Basohli Miniature Paintings (ca. 1660–1700)
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    Animals & Beasts

    Beetle Carapaces in Basohli Miniature Paintings (ca. 1660–1700)

    *Fungi Collected in Shropshire and Other Neighbourhoods* (1860–1902)
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    Natural World

    Fungi Collected in Shropshire and Other Neighbourhoods (1860–1902)

    Howard Pyle's *The Mermaid* (1910)
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    Animals & Beasts, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Howard Pyle's The Mermaid (1910)

    Visualising Bubbles (1500–1906)
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    Customs & Culture, Politics, Science & Medicine

    Visualising Bubbles (1500–1906)

    Peter Fabris’ Illustrations for William Hamilton’s *Campi Phlegraei* (1776–79)
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    Landscapes, Science & Medicine

    Peter Fabris’ Illustrations for William Hamilton’s Campi Phlegraei (1776–79)

    *Portrait of Charlotte du Val d’Ognes* (1801)
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    Music & Arts

    Portrait of Charlotte du Val d’Ognes (1801)

    Filippo Balbi’s *Testa Anatomica* (1854)
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    People, Science & Medicine

    Filippo Balbi’s Testa Anatomica (1854)

    *Ostentatio Genitalium* in Renaissance Art
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    Love & Lust, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Ostentatio Genitalium in Renaissance Art

    Ferdinand van Kessel’s *Four Parts of the World* (ca. 1689)
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    Animals & Beasts, Natural World, Travel & Exploration

    Ferdinand van Kessel’s Four Parts of the World (ca. 1689)

    Bruegel the Elder’s *Big Fish Eat Little Fish* (1556)
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    Animals & Beasts, Politics

    Bruegel the Elder’s Big Fish Eat Little Fish (1556)

    Albrecht Dürer’s Pillow Studies (1493)
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    Music & Arts

    Albrecht Dürer’s Pillow Studies (1493)

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

    Snowball Fights in Art (1400–1946)

    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)

    Solid Objects: 16th-Century Geometric and Perspective Drawings
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    Geometry & Diagrams, Design & Typography

    Solid Objects: 16th-Century Geometric and Perspective Drawings

    Lewis Carroll’s Illustrations for “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground” (1864)
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    Stories, Travel & Exploration

    Lewis Carroll’s Illustrations for “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground” (1864)

    Images of Hatha Yoga from the Joga Pradīpikā (19th century)
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    Religion, Myth & Legend, Sport & Exercise

    Images of Hatha Yoga from the Joga Pradīpikā (19th century)

    En Pleine Mer: The Underwater Landscapes of Eugen von Ransonnet-Villez
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    Natural World

    En Pleine Mer: The Underwater Landscapes of Eugen von Ransonnet-Villez

    The Reverse of a Framed Painting, and Other Trompe L’oeil by Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts (ca. 1670)
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    Music & Arts

    The Reverse of a Framed Painting, and Other Trompe L’oeil by Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts (ca. 1670)

    Kaspar Hauser’s Art (1828–1833)
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    Colonialism & the 'Other'

    Kaspar Hauser’s Art (1828–1833)

    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)