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- Magical Library (from The Art of Munashichi, by Munashichi)
Drawings
- 2 + Torture = 5 (Room 101 by Joe Baker)
- The '80s (The '80s Strike Back by Ryan Dunlavey
) - Anatomy Tropes (Vitruvian Man by Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci)
- Arcology (Complex in the Center of universe by Staszek Marek)
- Artistic License – History (left half: Xerxes I of Persia)
- Asian Fox Spirit (Jiuweihu by Wushí Feng Xìn)
- Astrologer (Habit d'Astrologue by Nicolas de Larmessin)
- Bakeneko and Nekomata
- Baphomet (Sabbatic Goat by Eliphas Levi)
- Barefoot Poverty (Boy Sitting [Barefoot and Hatless] by John Sell Cotman)
- Bath Suicide (from the Chronicles of Nuremberg, Death of Seneca by Hartmann Schedel)
- Bindle Stick (Hobo Costume Essentials, Halloween 2007 by Ape Lad)
- Black Sheep (Black Sheep of the Family by Katie)
- Bomb-Throwing Anarchists (top-right: Anarchist by Vladimir Taburin; bottom-left: political cartoon by Mike Flugennock)
- Books That Bite (Libellus Maleficus by Hawanja)
- Myth.Brazilian Folklore (Curupira, Saci and others by Eduardo Ferigato and Ricardo Riamonde)
- Busman's Holiday (A Little Summer Dream by Gert Haderer)
- Captain Marvel (Echoes of Shazam! by Alex Ross)
- Changeling Tale (Changeling by Johan Aronson)
- Cheek Copy (Office Party by Jody Williams)
- Chubby Mama, Skinny Papa (Jack Sprat and His Wife by Frederick Richardson)
- Classical Hunter
- Colony Ship (Artist's conception of the inside of an O'Neill Cylinder - NASA)
- Commedia dell'Arte (variation on Columbine by Maurice Sand from his book Masques et Bouffons)
- Corvid Tropes
- Dark Age Europe (Night Landscape with Ruined Monastery by Lluís Rigalt)
- Dawn of the Wild West (Sacajawea Guiding the Expedition from Mandan Through the Rocky Mountains by Alfred Russel)
- Death World (art by Steve Munsinger)
- Demonization (Ego sum Papa by an unknown artist, late 15th century Paris)
- Demon King Nobunaga (left half: Portrait of Oda Nobunaga by Kano Motohide, c.16th century)
- Dowsing Device (A Water Witch or Dowser, 16th-century woodcut)
- Elevator Tropes (Otis Elevator Company)
- Eskimo Land
- Escapism (street art by Dran)
- Evil Colonialist (Conquistador — Hernán Cortez by Lynd Kendall Ward)
- Face Death with Dignity (The hanging of Nathan Hale)
- Fantasy-Forbidding Father (Shotaro Ishinomori)
- Female Angel, Male Demon (Angel VS Demon by Joe Slucher)
- Food Fight (Chaos in the Cafeteria by Debbie Palen)
- French Cuisine Is Haughty (illustration by A.B. Frost for the book Pomona's Travels by Frank R. Stockton)
- Gilded Cage (Her Gilded Cage by Liz Chernov)
- God Was My Copilot (Arjun & Shree Krishna at War)
- Golem (Golem by Philippe Semeria)
- The Good Kingdom (Entrée d'Isabeau de Bavière dans Paris by Philippe de Mazerolles)
- Gossip Evolution (Chain of Gossip by Norman Rockwell)
- Hanging Up on the Grim Reaper (The Kids Are Alright by Pia Guerra)
- The Highwayman
- Hollywood Prehistory (Cavemen, Dinosaur and Volcano by Gerry Wood)
- Hover Tank (by Eli Maffei)
- Insect Index (A Dragon-fly, Two Moths, a Spider and Some Beetles, With Wild Strawberries by Jan Van Kassel)
- Jack Frost (Jack Frost, Window Painter by Oliver Herford)
- Kappa (Drawing of Kappa which was caught in net on Mito east beach, 1836)
- King of the Homeless (Hobo King by Alex Gornicki)
- Knight in Shining Armor (Sir Lancelot Gives His Shield into Elaine's Keeping by Arthur A. Dixon)
- Last-Minute Reprieve (A last minute reprieve saved Fyodor Dostoievski from the firing squad by Ralph Bruce)
- Latin Land (Panama Canal Zone, Porto Rico & Virgin Islands by Ruth Taylor)
- Legendary Carp
- Literature.Bluebeard (Barbe Bleue by Gustave Doré)
- Literature.Hop-o'-My-Thumb (Hop O' My Thumb pulls off the boots of the giant by Gustave Doré)
- Literature.Puss in Boots (Le Chat Botté by Gustave Doré)
- Literature.'Twas the Night Before Christmas (illustration by Thomas Nast)
- Lobotomy
- Locked Away in a Monastery (Depiction of a bishop blessing an anchoress found in a manuscript from circa 1400)
- Luxury Tropes (Lady Catherine Henriette)
- Mad Scientist Laboratory (Frankenstein's Laboratory by Stephan Martiniere)
- Medical Horror (Chantal Gare Orsay Scalp by Jean-Claude Claeys)
- Medieval Ballads (illustration from Cantigas de Santa Maria)
- Mighty Roar (by Bobby Chiu)
- Mother Nature
- The Mothman (by David Deen)
- Murder Water (Magnitude 9 by Clément Boulet)
- Nephilim
- Nightmare Fuel.Fairy Tales in General (Tom Pouce by Gustave Doré)
- No Eye in Magic (Perseus Beheads Medusa by Luigi Ademollo)
- The Nondescript ("No foto" by Piotr VaGla Waglowski)
- Odd Job Gods (Skadi Hunting in the Mountains by "H. L. M". Illustration from the book Asgard Stories, 1901)
- Older Than They Think
- The Owl-Knowing One (Wise Owl by Cornelis Bloemaert II)
- Palette-Swapped Alien Food (Alien Fast Food by David Evans)
- Performance Anxiety (illustration by Janet Street)
- Peking Duck Christmas (illustration by Ilana Lidagoster)
- Philosophy Tropes
- Piano Drop (illustration by Luc Melanson)
- The Power of Creation (Divine Play by Freydoon Rassouli)
- Quick Draw (Quick Draw by David Creighton-Pester and Evan Ferstenfeld)
- Reign of Terror
- Ring World Planet (NASA 1970s space colony artwork, ID NUMBER AC75-1886 by Rick Guidice)
- River of Insanity (H.M.S. Intrepid trapped in pack ice in Baffin Bay, circa 1853, sketch by Commander May R.N.)
- Romanticism Versus Enlightenment (2nd image: Portrait of Niccolò Paganini by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres)
- Royals Who Actually Do Something (Anglo-Saxon king and His Armour-Bearer Equipped for Battle)
- Russian Roulette (Dogs Playing Russian Roulette by Chuck Ballew)
- Scary Jack-in-the-Box (Scary Jack in the Box by Mark Fredrickson)
- Shoot the Messenger (by John McGlynn)
- Sinking Ship Scenario
- Snowball Fight
- Subways Suck (AM New York by Dean Kotz)
- A Taste of the Lash (British Military Discipline, 19th century wood engraving)
- Too Smart for Strangers (coloring page)
- Tower of Babel (Building of the Tower of Babel by Bedford Master)
- Trauma Swing
- Trial by Ordeal (Ordeal of boiling water from a Sachsenspiegel manuscript (1350-1375))
- True Art (Art Experts Look at Painting by Gerhard Haderer)
- True Art Is Incomprehensible (Black Square by Kazimir Malevich)
- UsefulNotes.Date Masamune
- UsefulNotes.Punic Wars (Second Punic War: Hannibal Crosses the Alps with His Elephants by Heinrich Leutemann)
- UsefulNotes.The Napoleonic Wars (cover of Napoleons Karten der Schweiz)
- UsefulNotes.The Prophet Muhammad (Muhammad Receiving Revelation from the Angel Gabriel from the manuscript Jami' al-tawarikh by Rashid-al-Din Hamadani)
- The Vitruvian Pose (Vitruvian Man by Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci)
- Voodoo Zombie (Zombie Pirate - M'Dongo by Miles Teves)
- War Is Hell (Trench Suicide by Otto Dix)
- Weapons of Their Trade (Robert Kett leads the Peasants Revolt by Cecil Doughty)
- Western Animation (Greatest Cartoon Characters by Ryan Dunlavey)
- Wings Do Nothing
- You Shall Not Pass! (Birth of the Roman Empire by Severino Baraldi)
Embroideries / Tapestries
- UsefulNotes.The House of Normandy (section of the The Bayeux Tapestry)
Glasswork
- Friend to All Children (mausoleum of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles)
- NightmareFuel.The Bible (9th bay at the Chapelle Notre-Dame de Kergoat of Kergoat in Quemeneven)
Prints
- Alien Geometries (Another World by M.C. Escher)
- Art Nouveau (Le Fruit by Alfons Mucha)
- UsefulNotes.Austro Prussian War (Battle of Königgrätz, 1866)
- Bodyguard Betrayal (The Death of Caligula, Etching by G. Mochetti after drawing by Bartolomeo Pinelli)
- Camp Follower (Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection)
- Chinese Laborer (Chinese, Gold Mining in California by Roy Daniel)
- Chinese Launderer (19th century)
- Clown Tropes (circus poster print)
- Comet of Doom (Halley's Comet over England)
- Cool Helmet (center: Otto von Bismarck)
- Death of the Author (Death Found an Author Writing His Life by Edward Hull)
- Devil in Disguise (print included in The Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire)
- DIY Dentistry (1810 comic print)
- Dragon Tropes (Dobrynya Nikitich rescues Zabava Putyatishna from the dragon Gorynych by Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin)
- The Exile (Adam and Eve Driven Out of Eden by Gustave Doré and Heliodore Joseph Pisan)
- Eye of Providence (top-left: US Dollar Bill, bottom-left: Mystical Medleys: A Vintage Cartoon Tarot)
- Fallen Hero (from John Milton's Paradise Lost, illustration by Gustave Doré)
- Filching Food for Fun (Scrumping by Ron Embleton)
- Fire and Brimstone Hell (from Hortus Deliciarum, illustration by Herrad of Landsberg)
- Foot Bath Treatment (by Inez Topham)
- Garden of Eden (Original Sin, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, late 19th Chromolithography)
- Gashadokuro (top third: Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Spectre by Utagawa Kuniyoshi)
- The Grand Hunt (a medieval forest, from Livre de chasse (1387) by Gaston III, Count of Foix)
- The Great Flood (The Flood by Gustave Doré)
- Healer God (Jesus Raising Jairus's Daughter by John Lawson)
- Hell (from Dante Alighieri's Inferno, illustration by Gustave Doré)
- The High Middle Ages (The First Crusade, illustration by Gustave Doré)
- Historical Beauty Update (left half: Drottning Kristina by Sébastien Bourdon)
- Holy Is Not Safe (Nadab and Abihu Destroyed by Phillip Medhurst)
- Horror Films (Classic Horror Guice by AlexDouMan)
- Human Sacrifice (Sacrifices humains by Pierre Fritel)
- Hunter Trapper (Seth Kinman, California Hunter and Trapper by Elliott & Armstead)
- The Illuminati (official rendering of the reverse side of the Great Seal of the United States)
- It's Not Porn, It's Art (Pervert vs. Artist by Wilhelm Staehle)
- Just Like Robin Hood
- King in the Mountain (Friedrich I Barbarossa, from Young Persons' Cyclopedia of Persons and Places, 1881)
- Light/Darkness Juxtaposition (The Creation of Light by Gustave Doré, 1866)
- My Girl Back Home (WWII-era print by Adolph Treidler)
- Myth.Faust (Faust's Pact with Mephisto by Julius Nisle)
- Myth.King Arthur and the Holy Grail ("And across it slowly moved the Holy Grail" by Walter J. Enright)
- New England Puritan (Puritans Going to Church by George Boughton, 1884)
- Nightmare Fuel.Game Theory (Exécution par éléphant, from Le Tour du Monde, 1868)
- Opium Den (American Opium-Smokers Interior of a New York Opium Den by J.W. Alexander, 1881)
- Oppressive States of America (art by David Dees)
- Plunder (Seizing the Italian Relics by George Cruikshank, 1815)
- Political Cartoons (The Plumb-pudding in danger, or, State Epicures taking un Petit Souper by James Gillray)
- Poltergeist
- Press-Ganged The Press-Gang in New York by Howard Pyle, 1882)
- Psychedelic Rock (poster by Bonnie MacLean)
- Ramming Always Works (A British Cruiser Ramming on Italian Submarine in the Mediterranean Back Them Up!)
- The Rustler (Cattle Raid on the Texas Border, 1874)
- Sacred Hospitality (Sieglinde Serves a Meal by Arthur Rackham)
- Salvage Pirates (Wreckers at Work on the Shores of Cornwall by Pat Nicolle)
- Satan (from Dante Alighieri's Inferno, illustration by Gustave Doré)
- Seers (Delphic Oracle by Heinrich Leutemann)
- Sentenced to Down Under (Black-eyed Sue and Sweet Poll of Plymouth taking leave of their lovers who are going to Botany Bay, 1792)
- Settings (from The Feather of Finist the Falcon, illustration by Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin)
- Slave Market (Lincoln at New Orleans Slave Market by Joseph Boggs Beale)
- Spirited Young Lady (L'Inconvénience des Perruques/The Inconvenience of Wigs by Carle Vernet, engraving by F. Sansom)
- Stocking Filler (from 1904 catalog Les Dessous Élégants, illustration by unknown artist}
- Threshold Guardians (from Tsarevitch Ivan, the Fire Bird and the Gray Wolf, illustration by Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin)
- The Tourney (illustration from the Codex Manesse, ca. 1340 AD)
- Trial by Combat (Judicial duel between Marshal Wilhelm von Dornsberg and Theodor Haschenacker in the Augsburg wine market, 1409)
- Twilight of the Old West
- UsefulNotes.The Eighty Years War
- UsefulNotes.The Peloponnesian War (Matthäus Merian, copper engraving)
- UsefulNotes.Walpurgisnacht (Walpurgisnacht by Johann Heinrich Ramberg)
- Warrior Poet (Samurai Writing a Poem on a Flowering Cherry Tree Trunk by Ogata Gekko)
- Will-o'-the-Wisp (An Ignis Fatuus, or Will-o'-The-Whisp by T. W. Cook)
- Winged Tropes (top-right: illustration by Aubrey Beardsley)
- Wretched Hive (Gin Lane by William Hogarth)
