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Plate illustrating the process of making silhouettes.

The history of silhouettes / by E. Nevill Jackson.

The silhouettes of two adults and a baby looking out of a window / Peter Rossiter.

Silhouette portrait of Gordon Holmes and miscelleanous other portraits.

An old woman telling fortunes from cards for four ladies in a drawing room. Coloured etching by by Joseph Stöber after Matthäus Loder.

Thomas Cogan. Aquatint silhouette.

Sir William Blizard. Silhouette, 1801.

Nathaniel Hulme. Aquatint silhouette, 1801.

William Hawes. Aquatint silhouette, 1801.

John Coakley Lettsom. Aquatint silhouette, 1801.

Charles Bonnet. Pencil and wash, silhouette.

Johann Caspar Lavater. Engraved silhouette by J. H. Lips [?].

A man in profile wearing a top hat, possibly a member of the Jenner family. Silhouette, 1810/1840(?).

Robert Liston. Printed silhouette.

Ada Misner, secretary to Sir Henry Wellcome. Silhouette.

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.

Witches: five silhouetted figures. Aquatint by M. Dubourg after B.A. Townshend, 1815.

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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.

Witches: five silhouetted figures. Aquatint by M. Dubourg after B.A. Townshend, 1815.

John Coakley Lettsom. Aquatint silhouette, 1801.

Robert Liston. Printed silhouette.

Johann Caspar Lavater. Engraved silhouette by J. H. Lips [?].