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  • 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.
  • A young woman contemplating a skull. Woodcut by A. Andreani after A. Casolano, 1592.
  • A horse-drawn hearse pulls away from a doctor's; representing the dire state of the medical establishment according to James Morison, pill-vendor and self-styled 'Hygeian'. Lithograph, c. 1848.
  • Skull: lateral view. Etching by B. Bossi, 1760.
  • Human skulls showing sutures: five figures. Line engraving, 1780/1800?.
  • A surgeon extracting a tooth from a patient, while the latter's concerned wife stands in the background. Mezzotint by Read after G. Dou.
  • Human skulls: seven figures. Line engraving, 1770/1830?.
  • An operator treating a patient's foot; a crowd of people is gathered around watching the work. Line engraving by P. Quast.
  • A profile of an old mentally disabled man, skulls of various races, skulls of a monkey and an orangutan, and a perfect, diagrammed human face; demonstrating the methods of physiognomy. Coloured engraving by H. Adlard, 1824.
  • Saint Mary Magdalen in penitence, contemplating a skull. Etching by T. Vercruys after C. Sacconi after a painting attributed to M. Merisi da Caravaggio.
  • A witch at her cauldron surrounded by monsters. Etching by Jan van de Velde II, 1626.
  • Saint Francis of Assisi kneeling in prayer, holding a skull. Engraving by Alphonse Charles Masson, 1849, after Francisco Zurbarán.
  • Skull: anterior view. Line engraving.
  • India: the ruins of Sammy House surrounded by scattered bones of sepoys killed in action. Photograph by F. Beato, c. 1858.
  • An alchemist poring over a book, on his table stand an hour-glass, a skull, and an astrological globe. Engraving by J.N. Tardieu after D. Teniers the younger, 1640/1650.
  • A large table in a lecture hall with many commercial medicine vendors and practitioners seated around it: in the background are many tiers of spectators. Engraving, 1748.
  • Muscles of the head and neck, the head raised and the lower jaw removed exposing the teeth and the zygomatic arch. Colour mezzotint by J. F. Gautier d'Agoty after himself, 1745-1746.
  • In a room filled with skulls of the famous, the phrenologist Gall examines William Pitt the Younger and Gustavus IV, the King of Sweden, both currently plagued by Napoleon. Coloured etching, 1806.
  • A professor asking a medical student his prognosis for a particular case. Coloured process print, 1900.
  • A physician examining a urine specimen in which a faint figure of a baby is visible, a female patient is crying and being shouted at by her angry mother, indicating that she is pregnant. Watercolour by I.T., 1826.
  • Three perspectives of a skull sectioned and numbered according to Gall's system of phrenology. Engraving, 1806.