metaphysical

Description: From “Anthropogenie” by Ernst Haeckel and Heinrich Philipp August, 1891.

Description: From “Anthropogenie” by Ernst Haeckel and Heinrich Philipp August, 1891.

Description: From "Little Wide Awake: an illustrated magazine for good children" published by George Routledge and Sons, 1880.

Description: From "Little Wide Awake: an illustrated magazine for good children" published by George Routledge and Sons, 1880.

Description: From "Little Wide Awake: an illustrated magazine for good children" published by George Routledge and Sons, 1880.

Description: From "Little Wide Awake: an illustrated magazine for good children" published by George Routledge and Sons, 1880.

Description: From "Little Wide Awake: an illustrated magazine for good children" published by George Routledge and Sons, 1880.

Description: From "Little Wide Awake: an illustrated magazine for good children" published by George Routledge and Sons, 1880.

Description: From "Little Wide Awake: an illustrated magazine for good children" published by George Routledge and Sons, 1880.

Description: Illustration from "The Baby's Bouquet: a fresh bunch of old rhymes & tunes" by Walter Crane.

Description: Illustration from "The Baby's Bouquet: a fresh bunch of old rhymes & tunes" by Walter Crane.

Description: Illustration from "The Baby's Bouquet: a fresh bunch of old rhymes & tunes" by Walter Crane.

Description: Illustration from "The Baby's Bouquet: a fresh bunch of old rhymes & tunes" by Walter Crane.

Description: Animals having tea from the children's book "Daddy Long Legs" by Jean Webster

Description: Detail from "Christ in the Pre-Birth" by Antonie Wierix (II), after Maerten de Vos, 1582 - 1586.

Description: Detail from "Christ in the Pre-Birth" by Antonie Wierix (II), after Maerten de Vos, 1582 - 1586.

Description: Pieter Bruegel-inspired tree house.

Description: Creature from "Laziness" by Pieter van der Heyden, to Pieter Bruegel (I), 1558.

Description: Creature from "Laziness" by Pieter van der Heyden, to Pieter Bruegel (I), 1558.

Description: Pieter Bruegel-inspired tree house

Description: Fantasy figure by an anonymous artist, after Jheronimus Bosch, 1570 - 1601.

Description: "Grotesque Animal Heads" by Daniel Hopfer c. 1515-20.

Description: "Grotesque Animal Heads" by Daniel Hopfer c. 1515-20.

Description: "The Dragon Devouring the Companions of Cadmus" (detail) by Hendrick Goltzius, 1588.

Description: “The Cyclops” by François Desprez, c. 1562-1564.

Description: “The Cyclops” by François Desprez, c. 1562-1564.

Description: "St. Sebastians Martyr" (detail) by Jacob Matham, c. 1620-1630.

Description: "St. Sebastians Martyr" (detail) by Jacob Matham, c. 1620-1630.

Description: Urania (detail) by an unknown artist, c. 1601-1652.

Description: Urania (detail) by an unknown artist, c. 1601-1652.

Description: Details of faces by Jean Lepautre, 1682 - 1706.

Description: Details of faces by Jean Lepautre, 1682 - 1706.

Description: "Shadows" by George Lodewijk Funke, 1865 - 1875.

Description: Band designs for Frans Coenen's "In Darkness" (1903) and "Sunday Rest" (1902) by Ferdinand Hart Nibbrig, in or before 1902 - 1903.

Description: Band designs for Frans Coenen's "In Darkness" (1903) and "Sunday Rest" (1902) by Ferdinand Hart Nibbrig, in or before 1902 - 1903.