Vampyr, from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"

I am a bird, see my wings. I am a bat, long live the rats (La Fontaine), from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, March 24, 1869

Honoré Daumier, Destouches, Aaron Martinet

The Flying Philosopher

Unknown

Great Indian Fruit Bat

Painting attributed to Bhawani Das

Grootoorvleermuis

anonymous

Monsters, Monkeys, and Men

Anonymous, French, Austrian or German, second decade19th century

A woman surrounded by demons stabbing a man to death from a broadside entitled 'Horroroso Asesinato'

José Guadalupe Posada, Hand printed by José Sanchez

An Extradordinary Animal. Neither an Opossum nor a Kangaroo but having something of both

John Doyle, Thomas McLean, Ducôte and Stephen, Daniel O'Connell, (?) Henry George Grey, 3rd Earl Grey, Lord John Russell, Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle, (?) Charles Grant, Baron Glenelg

Plate 7: suicide of an invidious plutocrat

José Guadalupe Posada

Boney Forsaken by his Guardian Genius

Charles Williams

A Giant Monkey in Uniform Holding up Pierrot and a Man with a Whip

Anonymous, French, Austrian or German, second decade19th century

Studies of Two Ears and of a Bat. Below, the motto: FULGET SEMPER VIRTUS

Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto)

Noctule Bat (Nyctalus noctula) and Brown Long-eared Bat (Plecotus auratus)

Unknown Artist