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  • Miss Atkinson, a woman with a pig's head. Coloured etching.
  • Rudolph Valentino and Natacha Rambova. Photographic postcard, 192-.
  • Rudolph Valentino and Natacha Rambova. Photographic postcard, 192-.
  • Foot of a Chinese woman, showing the effect of foot-binding. Photograph by (?) E.P. Minett, 192-.
  • Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor, as bride and groom. Coloured photographic postcard by Fox, 193-.
  • Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor, as bride and groom. Coloured photographic postcard by Fox, 193-.
  • Canton (Guangzhou), Kwangtung province, China: a Cantonese bride and groom. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Canton (Guangzhou), Kwangtung province, China: a Cantonese bride and groom. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • The arrest of Adamites in a public square in Amsterdam. Etching with engraving.
  • Savitri pleading with Yama for her husband's life. Chromolithograph.
  • Herodias mutilating the severed head of Saint John the Baptist held by Salome. Oil painting attributed to Pieter de Grebber.
  • Herodias mutilating the severed head of Saint John the Baptist held by Salome. Oil painting attributed to Pieter de Grebber.
  • Herodias mutilating the severed head of Saint John the Baptist held by Salome. Oil painting attributed to Pieter de Grebber.
  • Herodias mutilating the severed head of Saint John the Baptist held by Salome. Oil painting attributed to Pieter de Grebber.
  • Herodias mutilating the severed head of Saint John the Baptist held by Salome. Oil painting attributed to Pieter de Grebber.
  • Herodias mutilating the severed head of Saint John the Baptist held by Salome. Oil painting attributed to Pieter de Grebber.
  • A young couple visit a savant who consults ancient volumes in order to provide counselling to them. Oil painting by Edouard-Henri-Théophile Pingret, 1833 (?).
  • A young couple visit a savant who consults ancient volumes in order to provide counselling to them. Oil painting by Edouard-Henri-Théophile Pingret, 1833 (?).
  • A young couple visit a savant who consults ancient volumes in order to provide counselling to them. Oil painting by Edouard-Henri-Théophile Pingret, 1833 (?).
  • A young couple visit a savant who consults ancient volumes in order to provide counselling to them. Oil painting by Edouard-Henri-Théophile Pingret, 1833 (?).
  • A young couple visit a savant who consults ancient volumes in order to provide counselling to them. Oil painting by Edouard-Henri-Théophile Pingret, 1833 (?).
  • A white man approaches a woman sitting on a bench in a garden, and when she turns her face to him he sees that she is black. Engraving by S. Davenport after R.W. Buss.
  • A father with a stick pulls his daughter, a school girl towards a seated man: preventing female circumcision in Kenya. Colour lithograph by the Family Planning Association of Kenya, ca. 2000.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, part of the King Charles block, with a scale. Engraving by H. Hulsburgh after C. Campbell, 1715.
  • Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston, attending her trial for bigamy. Etching by John Hamilton Mortimer, 1776.
  • An Italian bandit offering a French gentleman the piebald one of three 'hottentot' (steatopygous) women; representing Louis Sambon and Raphael Blanchard at an international medical congress. Halftone after M.S. Orr, 1913.
  • An Italian bandit offering a French gentleman the piebald one of three 'hottentot' (steatopygous) women; representing Louis Sambon and Raphael Blanchard at an international medical congress. Halftone after M.S. Orr, 1913.
  • China: Manchu women buying flowers for their headdress, Beijing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • China: Manchu women buying flowers for their headdress, Beijing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Nala and Damayanti in exile in the forest. Chromolithograph.