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  • Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis pointing out the length of a degree on the longitude of meridian in Lapland to two people. Etching, 1753.
  • The Sultan stabs Zara in the chest: the finale of the play Zaire (Zara) by Voltaire. Etching.
  • Jean le Rond d'Alembert. Line engraving by P. Maleuvre, 1775, after A. Pujos, 1774.
  • Saint Gregory the Great: he holds up before a heretic woman the Host in which Christ crucified appears. Engraving by F. Voyez, 1769, after C. van Loo.
  • Saint Gregory the Great: elected pope, he receives obeisance from the cardinals. Engraving by S.C. Miger, 1770, after C. van Loo.
  • François-Marie Arouet, Voltaire. Photograph by E. Desmaisons after a lithograph (?)..
  • An episode in the play Olimpie by Voltaire: Olympia throws herself on the fire out of her love for Cassander, the murderer of her father Alexander the Great. Etching by Walker after H. Gravelot.
  • Voltaire instructing the infant Jacobinism. Coloured etching after J. Gillray, ca. 1800.
  • Benjamin Franklin presents his young son to Voltaire for benediction. Halftone.
  • Faces expressing the passions and showing the muscles relation to expression, with an explanation of the art of 'pathognomy', the reading of facial expression. Etching, c. 1800.
  • Elements of phrenology, physiognomy and palmistry, with diagrams of heads and hands, and portraits of historical figures. Colour lithograph, 1866.
  • Elements of phrenology, physiognomy and palmistry, with diagrams of heads and hands, and portraits of historical figures. Colour lithograph, 1866.