A photogravure from <n>Martin Gerlach</n>'s 1897 collection <n>Festons und decorative Gruppen</n>.

An 18th-century iron <n>tsuba</n> with a wheel design, signed by the artist <n>Kinai</n>.

A <n>fresco</n> fragment depicting the <n>Erythraean Sibyl</n>.

An untitled 1928 photograph by <n>Karl Blossfeldt</n> from his book <n>Urformen der Kunst</n>.

An 1809 print by <n>Angelo Bertini</n> after <n>Antonio Canova</n>'s sculpture, <n>Santa Maria Maddalena penitente</n>.

A 1928 photogravure by <n>Karl Blossfeldt</n> of <n>Polypodium vulgare</n> and <n>Ribes sanguineum</n>.

A photographic study from <n>The Splash of a Drop</n> (1895) by physicist <n>Arthur Mason Worthington</n>.

<n>[Wild Fennel]</n>, 1841, by <n>William Henry Fox Talbot</n>.

A cyanotype from <n>Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions</n> by <n>Anna Atkins</n>, 1843.

A page of emblems from <n>Daniel de La Feuille</n>'s 1699 book, <n>Devises et Emblèmes, Anciennes et Modernes</n>.

A 1929 photograph by <n>Karl Blossfeldt</n> from his book <n>Urformen der Kunst</n>.

<n>Nebuleuse de la Lyre</n>, an 1885 photograph by <n>Paul Henry</n> and <n>Prosper Henry</n>.

Illustration by <n>René Henri Digeon</n> and <n>J. Silberman</n> from <n>Amédée Guillemin</n>'s <n>Le Monde Physique</n> (1882).

A page of engravings from <n>Emblems Ancient and Modern</n> (1699) by <n>John R. Pine</n>.

A 1917 chronocyclegraph from <n>Physical Training for Business Men</n>. Photo by <n>George J. Fisher</n> and <n>A. B. Wegener</n>.

<n>Costume Design for "Andrey"</n> by <n>Charles Bianchini</n>, 1889.

Diagrams from <n>James Sowerby</n>'s 1809 book, <n>A New Elucidation of Colours</n>.

<n>Section of Wheat-Stem</n> by <n>Arthur E. Smith</n> from the 1909 book <n>Nature Through Microscope and Camera</n>.

<n>Bouquet of Flowers</n>, an etching by <n>Jean Pillement</n>, ca. 1760.

"Night Shells" illustrations from an 1883 catalog by Japanese firework maker <n>Jinta Hirayama</n>.

<n>Chylocladia ovalis</n> cyanotype by <n>Anna Atkins</n> from <n>Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions</n>, 1843-1853.

<n>Tête de femme, de trois quarts à droite</n> by <n>Odilon Redon</n>, 1886.

<n>Amphitrite</n>, an illustration from the 1897 book on magic edited by <n>Albert A. Hopkins</n>.

Plate XXV from <n>Thomas Wright</n>'s "An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe" (1750).

<n>Orpheus</n> (c. 1903-1910), a pastel by French <n>Symbolist</n> artist <n>Odilon Redon</n>.

<n>Ulva latissima</n>, a cyanotype by <n>Anna Atkins</n> from <n>Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions</n> (1843–53).

A <n>Tsuba</n> from <n>Okabe-Kakuya</n>'s 1916 publication, <n>Japanese Sword Guards</n>.

Photograph <n>Cucurbita</n> by <n>Karl Blossfeldt</n>, 1928, from his book <n>Urformen der Kunst</n>.

An albumen silver print by <n>Edward J. Woolsey</n> from his 1869 book <n>Specimens of Fancy Turning</n>.

Illustrations from <n>Hamonshu</n>, a Japanese book of wave and ripple designs by artist <n>Mori Yūzan</n>, 1903.

<n>Ovipositor of female fly</n>, an illustration by <n>Martin Frobenius Ledermüller</n> from 1762.

<n>Fuss eines 17 jährigen Jünglings</n>, an 1896 X-ray by <n>Josef Maria Eder</n> and <n>Eduard Valenta</n>.