The works illustrated almost all the scenes of the 'Tragedy of Man' except for the scene out of Paradise for which Zichy did not make an illustration at all. A few years later in 1887 he complemented the illustrations. He did new drawings to the scenes in Egypt, in Rome, and Byzantine. He did two more illustrations to the phalanstery scene too. The illustrations to the 'Tragedy of Man' were Zichy's most famous works. The book with his illustrations was published 15 times until the turn of the century. The original works were 70x100cms in size just as the copies supported by the Zichy Mihály Public Foundation founded by the great grandson of Zichy Mihály Csicsery-Rónay István.