The evolution of a monkey into a boy and a balloon into a cage for a parrot; satirising Darwin's theories. Wood engraving after C. Bennett, 1863.

Charles Henry Bennett

Spirals

M. C. Escher

Palm

M. C. Escher

Fish, vignette

M. C. Escher

Möbius strip I

M. C. Escher

John Keats. Wood engraving after J. Severn, 1819.

Larix [apple]

M. C. Escher

The Hospital for Consumption, Brompton Road, Fulham: viewed from the road. Wood engraving after F. J. Francis, 1844.

Frederick John Francis

Sir James Paget. Wood engraving by [S. T.], 1871.

Plane-filling motif with birds

M. C. Escher

Véron and de Cassagnac dissect Adolphe Thiers; symbolising the ousting of Thiers from the editorship of the Constitutionnel, the paper bought by Véron. Wood engraving by Dumont after A. Bertall, 1851.

Albert d'Arnoux Bertall

The evolution of a barrel and goose into a donkey into a man wearing tails; satirising Darwin's theories. Wood engraving after C. Bennett, 1863.

Charles Henry Bennett