An illustration by artist <n>Hans Tegner</n>.

<n>Cat Asleep in Basket</n>, a 19th-century drawing by <n>Auguste André Lançon</n>.

<n>She Will Veiled Walk</n>, an 1908 illustration by <n>William Heath Robinson</n> for <n>Shakespeare's Twelfth Night</n>.

A c. 1900 photochrom of <n>Le casino de la jetée-promenade</n> in <n>Nice</n>, France, destroyed in 1944.

<n>Lettre sur les éléments de la gravure a l'eau-forte</n>, an 1864 etching by <n>Adolphe Martial Potémont</n>.

I&#x27;m Your Valentine. (The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection)

<n>I'm your Valentine</n>, a photograph by <n>Henry Pointer</n>.

An 1880s illustration of late 15th-century <n>German Suit of Armor</n> from the book <n>Die Trachten der Völker</n>.

<n>City of Immortality</n>, an illustration by <n>Henry Justice Ford</n> from <n>The Orange Fairy Book</n> by <n>Andrew Lang</n>, 1906.

Cover art for the tabletop role-playing game <n>PAPER-THIN</n> by <n>klawzie</n>.

<n>Anders Zorn</n>'s 1897 etching, <n>Augustus Saint Gaudens II</n>, portrays sculptor <n>Augustus Saint-Gaudens</n>.

<n>Window</n> (1856) by artist <n>Anton Dieffenbach</n>.

A steel engraving of <n>The Gap of Dunloe</n> by artist <n>Thomas Creswick</n> and engraver <n>Robert Wallis</n>, c. 1875.

An illustration by <n>Alphonse de Neuville</n> for <n>Jules Verne</n>'s 1870 novel <n>Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas</n>.

Art by <n>John Martin</n> based on <n>John Milton</n>'s poem <n>Paradise Lost</n>.

<n>Wounded Dragon</n> (1916), an illustration by <n>John D. Batten</n> for <n>Joseph Jacobs</n>'s <n>Europa's Fairy Book</n>.

Embroidery

<n>Embroidery</n> by <n>Eleanor Cunningham</n> from the <n>Index of American Design</n>, c. 1937.

<n>The Death of Clopin Trouillefou</n>, an 1844 illustration by <n>Antoine-Alphée Piaud</n> for <n>Victor Hugo</n>'s <n>Notre-Dame de Paris</n>.

<n>Knight at Tournament</n>, an illustration by <n>Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc</n>. Lithograph by <n>A. Levy</n>.

<n>Handsome Pair</n> (1909), an illustration by <n>Cecil Aldin</n>.

<n>Until Her Death</n> (1895), an illustration by <n>Hugh Thomson</n> for a book by <n>Austin Dobson</n>.

An 1871 illustration by <n>Alphonse de Neuville</n> for <n>Jules Verne</n>'s <n>Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea</n>.

The illustration <n>A secret</n> by <n>Cecil Aldin</n>, from his c. 1913 book <n>Cecil Aldin's merry party</n>.

<n>The Moon Painted by Itself</n> (ca. 1650), a watercolour by Dutch artist <n>Gesina ter Borch</n>.

Illustration by <n>Théophile Steinlen</n>.

<n>The Gnarled Monster</n>, an 1863 engraving by <n>Gustave Doré</n> for <n>The Legend of Croquemitaine</n>.

<n>Sweetly Virtuous and Pure</n>, an illustration by <n>Harry Clarke</n> for the 1925 edition of <n>Faust</n>.

'<n>The attentive pupil</n>' from <n>Henry Pointer</n>'s <n>Brighton Cats</n> series, taken in the 1870s.

Detail from <n>Richard Wagner</n>'s 1834 prose draft for his opera <n>Das Liebesverbot</n>.

<n>Roland's Descent</n> (1883), a wood engraving by <n>Gustave Doré</n>.

<n>The Banker's Table</n> (1877), a <n>trompe-l'œil</n> still life by <n>William Michael Harnett</n>.

<n>Knight fighting a monster</n> (1852), an illustration by <n>A. de Neuville</n> from the book <n>Légendes de l’Alsace</n>.

"<n>Jouster in Armor</n>," a chromolithograph by <n>A. Levié</n> from a book directed by <n>Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc</n>.

<n>Give Me a Leg Up</n> by <n>Cecil Aldin</n> from the book <n>Cecil Aldin's merry party</n> (1913).