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Concept

Skull

Images

  • Phrenological diagrams of the skull and brain, with three portraits: Laurence Sterne, a mathematician, and Shakespeare; exemplifying the faculties of wit, number and imagination respectively. Engraving by H. Sawyer after W. Byam, 1818.
  • Animal skull, shown from beneath, above and from the side. Lithograph by R. Ball, 1857.
  • The body of Saint Bruno is laid out in state and surrounded by mourning Carthusian monks. Etching with engraving after E. Le Sueur.
  • The dissection of a young, beautiful woman directed by J. Ch. G. Lucae (1814-1885) in order to determine the ideal female proportions. Chalk drawing by J. H. Hasselhorst, 1864.
  • Sarawak: decorated human skulls hanging in a Kayan house. Photograph.
  • Skull of an Ethiopian person: three figures. Chromolithograph by H.J. Ruprecht, 1877.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor and tooth-drawer with his company, performing operations and offering medicines for sale from a waggon to a crowd of people in Rome. Wood engraving, 1872.
  • Human skull: frontal view. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • A surgeon treating an irate patient's wounded leg in his surgery assisted by two attendants. Engraving.
  • The death-mask of Maria Manning, the murderer: three views. Lithograph by John Lane.
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Catalogue

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    A skull with eyes formed of the male and female symbols, representing sterility attributed to sexually transmitted diseases. Colour lithograph, 196- (?).

    | Date: [between 1960 and 1969?] | Reference: 2863750i
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    Four faces: a European, a Mongolian, an Ethiopian, and a profile of Samuel Johnson; three frontal silhouettes; three skulls of the same races seen from above (in the order European, Ethiopian and Mongolian). Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1824.

    | Date: 1824 | Reference: 35100i
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    Le cre des criminels / par A. Debierre ... Ornde 137 figures dans le texte.

    Debierre, M. (Charles-Marie), 1853-1932. | Date: 1895
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    Skull: two figures, showing side and front views. Watercolour by A. Mongrédien, ca. 1880.

    Mongrédien, Adêle. | Date: 1880 | Reference: 568422i
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Neurofibromatosis and Recklingshausen's disease

    | Date: 1901-1950 | Reference: PP/FPW/B.228
    Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)
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