New Inventions of Modern Times [Nova Reperta], Title Plate

The World, Cage of Fools

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

A cartouche with a sundial, a skull with feathers on its head at top, from "Eight Emblems for the Funeral of Francesco de Medici" (Huit emblèmes pour les funérailles du prince François de Médicis)

Stefano della Bella

Title Page, from The Seven Planets

Jan Sadeler, I

Rébus on the subject of fortune, a riddle depicted on drapery surrounded by a frame

Stefano della Bella

A Stand of Arms, Musical Instruments, etc.

William Hogarth

The Cage of Fools (La gabbia de' matti)

Sebastiano di Re

Sacrificial Instruments Based on Ancient Relief Sculpture, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Attributed to Nicolas Beatrizet, After Enea Vico

Screen with Rebus of Fortune

Etched by Stefano della Bella

Rébus on the subject of love, a riddle depicted on drapery, below a landscape with a pyramid and two obelisks, a bust of a sphinx at bottom

Stefano della Bella

Crowns, Mitres, Maces, etc.

William Hogarth

'Anno 1690' (the Year 1690), with numerous warring figures clambering on and hanging from the numbers, allusions to the Allegories of the Four Elements and the Four Continents

Giuseppe Maria Mitelli

Temperance, from The Seven Virtues

Philips Galle