Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
Events
56 results
  • Selected essays and monographs : chiefly from English sources / Braxton Hicks, Bodington, Hodgkin, Paget, Humphry, Ehlers.
  • The art of living long : a new and improved English version of the treatise by the celebrated Venetian centenarian, Louis Cornaro, with essays / by Joseph Addison, Lord Bacon, and Sir William Temple.
  • Fleta minor. The laws of art and nature in knowing, judging, assaying, fining, refining and inlarging the bodies of confin'd metals. In two parts. The first contains essays of Lazarus Erckern ... in V books: originally written by him in the Teutonick language, and now translated into English. The second contains essays on metallick words, as a dictionary to many pleasing discourses by Sir John Pettus ... Illustrated with 44 sculptures ... / [Sir John Pettus].
  • Fleta minor. The laws of art and nature in knowing, judging, assaying, fining, refining and inlarging the bodies of confin'd metals. In two parts. The first contains essays of Lazarus Erckern ... in V books: originally written by him in the Teutonick language, and now translated into English. The second contains essays on metallick words, as a dictionary to many pleasing discourses by Sir John Pettus ... Illustrated with 44 sculptures ... / [Sir John Pettus].
  • Fleta minor. The laws of art and nature in knowing, judging, assaying, fining, refining and inlarging the bodies of confin'd metals. In two parts. The first contains essays of Lazarus Erckern ... in V books: originally written by him in the Teutonick language, and now translated into English. The second contains essays on metallick words, as a dictionary to many pleasing discourses by Sir John Pettus ... Illustrated with 44 sculptures ... / [Sir John Pettus].
  • Essays on physiognomy; for the promotion of the knowledge and the love of mankind / Written in the German language by John Caspar Lavater, and translated [from the German] into English by Thomas Holcroft.
  • Essays on physiognomy; for the promotion of the knowledge and the love of mankind / Written in the German language by John Caspar Lavater, and translated [from the German] into English by Thomas Holcroft.
  • Essays on physiognomy; for the promotion of the knowledge and the love of mankind / Written in the German language by John Caspar Lavater, and translated [from the German] into English by Thomas Holcroft.
  • Essays on physiognomy; for the promotion of the knowledge and the love of mankind / Written in the German language by John Caspar Lavater, and translated [from the German] into English by Thomas Holcroft.
  • Essays on physiognomy; for the promotion of the knowledge and the love of mankind / Written in the German language by John Caspar Lavater, and translated [from the German] into English by Thomas Holcroft.
  • Essays on physiognomy; for the promotion of the knowledge and the love of mankind / Written in the German language by John Caspar Lavater, and translated [from the German] into English by Thomas Holcroft.
  • Essays on physiognomy; for the promotion of the knowledge and the love of mankind / Written in the German language by John Caspar Lavater, and translated [from the German] into English by Thomas Holcroft.
  • Essays on physiognomy : designed to promote the knowledge and the love of mankind / Written in the German language by John Caspar Lavater, and translated into English by Thomas Holcroft. To which are added, one hundred physiognomonical rules, a posthumous work by Mr. Lavater; and memoirs of the life of the author, compiled principally from the life of Lavater, by G. Gessner.
  • Essays on physiognomy : designed to promote the knowledge and the love of mankind / Written in the German language by John Caspar Lavater, and translated into English by Thomas Holcroft. To which are added, one hundred physiognomonical rules, a posthumous work by Mr. Lavater; and memoirs of the life of the author, compiled principally from the life of Lavater, by G. Gessner.
  • Essays on physiognomy : designed to promote the knowledge and the love of mankind / Written in the German language by John Caspar Lavater, and translated into English by Thomas Holcroft. To which are added, one hundred physiognomonical rules, a posthumous work by Mr. Lavater; and memoirs of the life of the author, compiled principally from the life of Lavater, by G. Gessner.
  • A couple hovering off the ground being observed by a huge goat with two cats. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.
  • A couple hovering off the ground being observed by a huge goat with two cats. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.
  • Shwe-Maong, a man in Burma whose head and face are covered with hair. Aquatint by J.H. Clark after W.E. Reid.
  • Outlines of twelve faces in profile. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Two sketches of a man's head. Drawing, c. 1793.
  • A woman kneeling, holding a vase. Drawing, c. 1793.
  • Statues of an apostle and Christ (?). Drawing, c. 1793.
  • A Roman soldier throws a javelin over a dead body. Drawing, c. 1793.
  • A woman weeping over her dead lover. Drawing, c. 1793.
  • One soldier talks to three seated Roman figures. Drawing, c. 1793.
  • A girl standing. Coloured drawing, c. 1793.
  • Twelve sketches of eyes. Drawing, c. 1793.
  • Seven physiognomies. Drawing, c. 1793.
  • Two women weeping over a prone figure. Drawing, c. 1793.
  • Eyes expressing extreme emotion, from coldness to rage. Drawing, c. 1794.