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  • Famine in Mysore, India: six emaciated men wearing loin cloths, five sitting and one lying on a mat. Photograph attributed to Willoughby Wallace Hooper, 1876/1878.
  • A strong man supporting a weak and emaciated woman; representing the work of the Zonnestraal sanatorium for the tuberculous. Colour lithograph by A. Hahn, 1932.
  • Monumental stone figure from St. Mary Overies Church: an emaciated figure partially wrapped in a shroud, front view. Engraving with etching by William Deeble, 1815.
  • Famine in Mysore, India: six emaciated men wearing loin cloths, five sitting and one lying on a mat. Photograph attributed to Willoughby Wallace Hooper, 1876/1878.
  • Calais gate: the Host is administered to sick people, while emaciated and ragged French people go about their business. Etching by C. Mosley after W. Hogarth.
  • An emaciated naked man, displaying large swellings on his neck and groin, with smaller swellings visible on his chest, arms, abdomen and thigh. Process print, 18--.
  • A standing young man, naked and viewed from the front in full length; he appears emaciated. Photograph by L. Haase after H.W. Berend, c. 1865.
  • A standing young man, naked and viewed from the front in full length; he appears emaciated. Photograph by L. Haase after H.W. Berend, c. 1865.
  • Friern Hospital, London: an emaciated old man, naked, with deformed limbs and stitch marks running from beneath his chin to his penis; three views from different angles. Photograph, 1890/1910.
  • An ill and emaciated horse is standing next to and looking down at the carcass of a dead horse while a dog is approaching the carcass. Etching after P. Potter.
  • An emaciated Hindu ascetic or holy man, seated on a knoll under a tree, with his left hand held over his head; a richly dressed woman pours liquid into his bowl. Gouache painting.
  • A black woman nurses an emaciated child beneath a cross; surrounded by text relating to Christ's crucifixion with a map of Africa in the background; representing the suffering experienced by AIDS/HIV victims; advertisement by CAFOD. Colour lithograph.
  • The dissection of an emaciated, grey cadaver by an anatomist who is making an abdominal incision with a scalpel with his right hand while his left hand is placed on the cadaver's hip. Colour process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.
  • Two people visiting an emaciated man with AIDS, a table of fruit, a doctor examining a woman, a line of clothes and different animals; an advertisement about ways in which AIDS and HIV are not contracted by Spitnac, Societal Projects Information Training Networking and Consultancy Services. Colour lithograph, 1997?.
  • A doctor places a thermometer in a female patient's mouth, an emaciated man and a skin rash representing a message about symptoms that suggest you have AIDS; one of a series of 4 AIDS education posters by the Population and Community Development Association (PDA) in Thailand. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A dilapidated hay wain, pulled by emaciated donkeys (Mental and Physical Weakness) is driven by a young man (Torpor) and carries two women in rags (Poverty and Humility) while three women (Fragility, Patience and Servitude) accompany the cart; representing the attributes of human existence. Engraving by Cornelis Cort, 1564, after M. van Heemskerck.
  • Two HIV virus cells above the world bearing the words 'HIV' against a backdrop incorporating an emaciated AIDS victim, someone receiving an injection and Arabic script; an advertisement for the Kuwait Fourth International Conference on AIDS in 1994 by the KFAS, The Kuwait Ministry of Health and the World Health Organisation. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • [Newspaper cutting, "Easily rattled" featuring a cartoon of a man talking to a Living Skeleton. ].
  • [Newspaper cutting, "Easily rattled" featuring a cartoon of a man talking to a Living Skeleton. ].
  • The living skeleton : drawn from nature / by Robert Crukshank.
  • Boniface : there have been several "living skeletons" exhibited in England from time to time. The most famous, as the first of the kind, was Claude Seurat, a Frenchman, who was shown in London during the summer of the year 1825.
  • Barry's living wonders will exhibit here : no.1 & 2 Burnett's Road, near the Agricultural Hall, during the Cattle Show next week : the greatest living wonder ever seen : the double man : half man & half woman alive!.
  • [Undated handbill (1835?) advertising 'L'anatomie vivante, or Living Skeleton" at the York Hotel, William Square (Liverpool?)].
  • [Undated handbill (1835?) advertising 'L'anatomie vivante, or Living Skeleton" at the York Hotel, William Square (Liverpool?)].
  • A changeling child : to be seen next door to the Black Raven, in West Smithfield, during the time of the FAIR, being a living skeleton, taken by a Venetian Galley, from a Turkish vessel in the archipelago ...
  • Extraordinary natural curiosity : a living skeleton.
  • Extraordinary natural curiosity : a living skeleton.
  • [Newspaper cutting, "A soft snap" (in the series 'snap-shots') featuring a cartoon and a Living Skeleton and a Wild Man of Borneo talking about a Two-Headed Man. ].
  • [Newspaper cutting, "A soft snap" (in the series 'snap-shots') featuring a cartoon and a Living Skeleton and a Wild Man of Borneo talking about a Two-Headed Man. ].
  • Unequalled novelty from Westminster Hall, London, will arrive in this town on the of this month : The public of this town and its vicinity are most respectfully informed that a wonderful display of the works of nature will be exhibited here for a short time only. Mr. J. Chipperfield begs to inform the public that he has entered into an expensive engagement with Mr. Tipney the Skeleton Man Alive, born in the year 1841, and weighs only forty-nine pounds!.