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  • A woman lagging a hot-water tank. Colour lithograph.
  • The story of Cupid and Psyche: inside the palace, Psyche, shown five times, is undressed, bathed, anointed, dried and laid to bed by invisible nymphs. Engraving by Agostino Veneziano, 15--, after M. Coxie, 153-.
  • Oatine : the food for the complexion / The Oatine Company.
  • A father looks over his vaccinated, ugly child and is glad that his face will be spared the blemishes of smallpox. Lithograph by H. Daumier, 1846.
  • A young woman casting a spell. Stipple engraving by T.L. Grundy, 1838, after W. Bradley.
  • It floats : Swan Soap : train up a child in the way it should go / Lever Brothers Limited.
  • Figuroids : the scientific obesity cure : safely remove all superfluous fat from every part of the body, and quite restore the figure / The Figuroid Company Ltd.
  • The toilet of Psyche or Venus. Colour stipple engraving by W.W. Ryland, 1767, after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.
  • Seven portraits of women, compared for their beauty and prudence. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • A woman's head, expressive of sublime compassion. Drawing, c. 1791, after Raphael.
  • Some elderly patients wistfully reminisce about their younger days. Coloured lithograph by A. de Valmont.
  • A traveller being entranced by a witch disguised as a beautiful woman in the Alps. Engraving by T. Stocks after F. Meadows.
  • Husbands bringing their ugly wives to a windmill, to be transformed into beautiful ones. Engraving, ca 1650.
  • Raphael: portrait. Drawing, c. 1791.
  • Two women crouching over a wash-basin; a winged human hovers above. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937.
  • Two women crouching over a wash-basin; a winged human hovers above. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937.
  • Husbands bringing their ugly wives to a windmill, to be transformed into beautiful ones. Engraving, ca 1650.
  • A man looking at a version of the painting of the three Graces by Raphael. Mezzotint by F. Atkinson, 1882, after J.E. Soden.
  • The painter Zeuxis, preparing to paint a picture for Juno, selects as his model the most beautiful parts of five virgins of Croton. Etching by J. Goupy after F. Solimena.
  • The painter Zeuxis selecting the best features of five different women for his painting of Juno. Stipple engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1785, after A. Kauffman.
  • A water-pot (hydria), painted with women at their toilet, with Eros. Engraving, 17--.
  • A young woman wearing a bonnet, representing characteristics of youth. Drawing, ca. 1794.
  • A lower class young woman; representing the St Giles's area of London. Stippple engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1783, after J.H. Benwell.
  • A man commenting on the beauty of women at a ball, his friend (a dentist) implies that the perfection of their smiles is due to him. Wood engraving after C. Keene, c.1882.
  • Right profile of a boy exemplifying ancient Greek male beauty. Drawing, c. 1791.
  • Venus at her toilet, assisted by the three Graces; she sits on the lap of one of them, another combs her hair, and two cupids hold a mirror in which she admires her own beauty. Engraving by M. Dorigny, 1651, after S. Vouet.
  • Left profile of a boy exemplifying ancient Greek male beauty. Drawing, c. 1791.
  • An upper class young woman; representing the St James's area of London. Stipple engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1783, after J.H. Benwell.
  • The head of Apollo, his physiognomy having metamorphosed from that of a frog. Coloured drawing by J.C. Lavater, 179-.
  • A vain woman (Lady Pentweazle) sits to a portrait-painter (Carmine) while a servant holds her lapdog. Mezzotint by D. Lucas, 1832, after R. Smirke.