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Grotesque Collection

Background imageGrotesque Collection: Shrunken Heads

Shrunken Heads
19th August 1925: Three specimen of shrunken heads all with long hair, prepared by the Macas Indians. (Photo by Kirby/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageGrotesque Collection: Deathly Diners

Deathly Diners
Six skeletons smoking around the dinner table, circa 1865. (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGrotesque Collection: Jumbo Head

Jumbo Head
3rd September 1962: A stuffed elephant's head raising its trunk in the air at Charles Gerrard's north London taxidermy workshop. (Photo by Chris Ware/Keystone Features/Getty Images)

Background imageGrotesque Collection: La Fontaines Fables - The Wooden Idol

La Fontaines Fables - The Wooden Idol
Vintage engraving from La Fontaines Fables, Illustraed by Gustave Dore. The Wooden Idol

Background imageGrotesque Collection: La Fontaines Fables - Gout and the Spider

La Fontaines Fables - Gout and the Spider
Vintage engraving from La Fontaines Fables, Illustraed by Gustave Dore. The Gout and the Spider

Background imageGrotesque Collection: Don Quixote and the Knight of the Wood

Don Quixote and the Knight of the Wood
Vintage engraving from Don Quixote illustrated by Gustave Dore. Man in the strange mask from Chapter XIV

Background imageGrotesque Collection: Zombie Head

Zombie Head
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Background imageGrotesque Collection: Scary Face

Scary Face
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Background imageGrotesque Collection: Clown with Bloody Teeth

Clown with Bloody Teeth
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Background imageGrotesque Collection: Crazy face

Crazy face
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Background imageGrotesque Collection: William Hogarths Illustrations for Samuel Butlers Hudibras

William Hogarths Illustrations for Samuel Butlers Hudibras
Vintage engraving of William Hogarths Illustrations for Samuel Butlers mock heroic narrative poem Hudibras. Hudibras Sallies Forth

Background imageGrotesque Collection: A Demon In My View

A Demon In My View
A figure sees a demonic apparition in a stormcloud in American author Edgar Allan Poes 1849 collection The Bells And Other Poems. (Photo by Edmund Dulac/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGrotesque Collection: Hands chained together

Hands chained together
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1930s: Businessmans hands chained together. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

Background imageGrotesque Collection: Vision Of Hell

Vision Of Hell
An engraving depicting Hell and its wretched inhabitants, circa 1650. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGrotesque Collection: Hideous Harpies

Hideous Harpies
Virgil leads the author through a wood filled with Harpies and miserable souls transformed into trees. An engraving by Gustave Dore, illustrating Canto XIII of Dantes Inferno, written circa 1310

Background imageGrotesque Collection: snake

snake
Section of snake head showing poison glands and fangs, vintage illustration

Background imageGrotesque Collection: Illustration, face of gargoyle, front view

Illustration, face of gargoyle, front view

Background imageGrotesque Collection: Top view of Paris

Top view of Paris

Background imageGrotesque Collection: Grotesque Heads

Grotesque Heads
Giant ugly head costumes with padlocks on the chin at the carnival at Mainz. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageGrotesque Collection: Burglars Brain

Burglars Brain
14th March 1930: The pickled brain of a burglar by the name of Dunlap. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageGrotesque Collection: Gun poking out from behind curtain

Gun poking out from behind curtain
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1940s: Mans hand holding pistol, pointing out from behind curtain. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

Background imageGrotesque Collection: Outstretched arms

Outstretched arms
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1950s: Montage of outstretched arms. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

Background imageGrotesque Collection: Voila Les Anglais

Voila Les Anglais
An elegant English couple in Paris after the Napoleonic wars are mocked by grotesquely portrayed Parisians, circa 1815. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGrotesque Collection: Tower Of Silence

Tower Of Silence
The Tower of Silence, a Parsi temple near Bombay, circa 1955. The bodies of the dead are left here to be disposed of by vultures. (Photo by Alice Schalek/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGrotesque Collection: Devils Sabbath

Devils Sabbath
An engraving by Claude Gillot depicting a Devils Sabbath, circa 1700. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageGrotesque Collection: Mutilated Shades

Mutilated Shades
Virgil leads the author past a group of wretched souls contemplating their missing limbs and heads. An engraving by Gustave Dore, illustrating Canto XXIX of Dantes Inferno, written circa 1310

Background imageGrotesque Collection: Shopping Under Siege

Shopping Under Siege
Under siege by the Prussian army, Parisians are reduced to buying cat, dog and rat meat at a butchers stall during the Franco-Prussian war

Background imageGrotesque Collection: Irish Bog Trotters

Irish Bog Trotters
Cartoon in style of Rowlandson showing three grotesque figures running across an Irish bog with a hunt in the background and subtitle Irish Bog Trotters circa 1812. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images)


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