Feet and hands are notoriously difficult to draw, which may explain the popularity of Stefano Della Bella’s deft seventeenth-century etching of feet seen from a variety of angles—the inspiration for this month’s theme. Photographic feet come to the fore in Félix Bonfils’s nineteenth-century albumen print of the ceremony of washing feet in the court of the Holy Sepulchre, and Jack Birns captured revolutionary times in a 1940s Nanjing picture of a woman with bound feet waiting for a train. Issues of racial representation slip through the fingers of the illustrations  of an 1863 children’s book, Hand Shadow Stories, and beautiful women are gazed upon in an Indian painting of a lady perfuming her feet and Japanese woodblock prints of beauties with strikingly graceful hands.