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  • A face expressing horror. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1970.
  • A face expressing horror. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1970.
  • "Horror" from Le Brun,
  • Two faces, one in outline, expressing horror. Etching by B. Picart, 1713, after C. Le Brun.
  • Ravana slaughtering Jatayu the vulture, while an abducted Sita looks away in horror. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.
  • The face of a man expressing horror. Engraving by M. Engelbrecht (?), 1732, after C. Le Brun.
  • Rocky Horror picture party for AIDS workers. Colour lithograph, 1995.
  • A face expressing scorn (left) and a face expressing horror (right). Engraving, c. 1760, after C. Le Brun.
  • A man raises his hands in horror as he stands over the prostrate body of a woman. Etching.
  • "Horror" from Le Brun, Bowles's Passions of the soul, circa 1785
  • A bearded man whose face expresses horror. Crayon manner print by W. Hebert, c. 1770, after C. Le Brun.
  • A bearded man whose face expresses horror. Crayon manner print by W. Hebert, c. 1770, after C. Le Brun.
  • A dentist looking in horror at the size of the tooth he has just extracted from his grimacing patient. Coloured aquatint.
  • A statue of Germania displaying prominent breasts on a war memorial; prim ladies avert their faces in horror. Drawing, ca. 1923.
  • A dentist looking in horror at the size of the tooth he has just extracted from his grimacing patient. Coloured aquatint.
  • "Horror" from le Brun, Heads. Representing the various passions of the soul..., circa 1760
  • A man destroys his entire wine stock to the horror of his wife. Wood-engraving by J. Johnston, c. 1864, after G. Cruikshank.
  • Shepherds in Arcadia discover a tomb and show signs of distress and horror. Stipple with engraving by Kirk after G.B. Cipriani, 1788.
  • Blindfolded victims having their throats cut outside a prison while a group of monks avert their eyes from this scene of horror. Etching with engraving.
  • A young man wearing checked trousers looks in horror at the state of the jacket he is holding up to inspect. Coloured lithograph after J.V. Barret, ca 1860.
  • A tiger hunt, showing a dismounted hunter being set-upon by tigers (or leopards?), while his fellow exotically-dressed hunters look on in horror. Engraving by J.J. Flipart, 1773, after F. Boucher.
  • A woman dropping her porcelain tea-cup in horror upon discovering the monstrous contents of a magnified drop of Thames water; revealing the impurity of London drinking water. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1828.
  • A woman dropping her porcelain tea-cup in horror upon discovering the monstrous contents of a magnified drop of Thames water; revealing the impurity of London drinking water. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1828.
  • A horse bites the shin of its grimacing rider, in a stable-yard; the stable owner (?) and two other men look on in horror. Coloured lithograph by A. Strassgschwandtner after himself, ca. 1860.
  • A woman dropping her porcelain tea-cup in horror upon discovering the monstrous contents of a magnified drop of Thames water; revealing the impurity of London drinking water. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1828.
  • A boy has made a vase look like a person on which he can then launch an attack, broken pieces of china lie on the floor and a woman comes rushing in waving her arms in horror. Lithograph.
  • A man shoots at a lark that has escaped from its cage on the street: the woman who owns it watches in horror from an upstairs window, while another man watches from the side of the house. Etching, 183-(?).
  • The martyrdom of seventy Protestants in Rome: a man kneels outside a prison, having the executioner covering his eyes with his hands and is about to have his throat cut while monks avert their eyes in horror. Etching after D. Dodd.
  • The suicide of Cleopatra: Cleopatra is shown seated on a chair with the asp wriggling up her left arm while her maid shields her face in a gesture of horror and grief. Line engraving by J.G. Wille, 175-, after C. Netscher.
  • Nos el Dr. D. Alonso Nuñez de Haro y Peralta ... Entre las graves obligaciones de nuestro ministerio pastoral, consideramos ser la primera velar cuidadosamente, para que las almas de nuestros subditos consigan la salvacion eterna: y habiendo llegado á nuestra noticia, que se mira comunmente con horror la operacion llamada parto cesareo [&c.].