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  • Plato. Drawing after Raphael, ca. 1793.
  • Heads of two girls of contrasting appearance. Drawing by M. Bishop, 1967.
  • A town in Manchuria just before the arrival of the plague and the Japanese invasion of 1931. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Rats roaming the sewers, some of them dying, heralding the plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Interior of a dissecting room with cadavers laid out on tables. Drawing by Paul Renouard, 1906.
  • Augustus Caesar: profile. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • An American soldier lying wounded; analogous to the sufferings of a plague victim. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A nun, smiling, raising her hands and looking upwards. Drawing by M. Bishop, 1973.
  • Portraits of Klotz and Leuthner, and a caricature of a man. Drawing by P. von Hess, 1812.
  • A dog showing affection but receiving a whipping. Drawing by M. Bishop, 1973.
  • The Virgin with four saints: the archangel Michael, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Saint Apollonia and Saint John the Evangelist. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after P. Vannucci, il Perugino.
  • A seated gouty man with his bandaged leg on a gout stool. Coloured pencil drawing.
  • A rat stowing away on a ship, carrying the plague further afield. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A woman in a state of attention without interest. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • The Virgin Mary and Christ child with Saint Antony of Padua, Saint Catherine of Alexandria and Saint John the Baptist as a child. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after G. Bugiardini.
  • The Virgin Mary with the Christ Child, Saint Augustine, Michael the Archangel, Saint Jerome and Saint Margaret of Antioch. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after G.F.M. Mazzola, il Parmigianino.
  • John the Baptist preaching to a crowd at the river Jordan. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after L. Carracci.
  • Scientists experimenting with rats to investigate the plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • An older woman tending to a sick young woman. Watercolour by R.T. Pritchett.
  • Idealized profile of Martha Hess, exemplifying Lavater's principle of the homogeneity of the face. Drawing, c. 1791, after J.H. Füssli.
  • An 'ideal head' shown to have slight idiosyncrasies in physiognomy. Drawing, c. 1789, after Raphael.
  • An ill man seated by a fireplace vomiting into a bowl. Pencil drawing.
  • A youth whose physiognomy attests to unrefinability and obstinate weakness. Drawing, c. 1789, after D.N. Chodowiecki.
  • The coronation of the Virgin with four saints: Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Saint John the Evangelist, Saint John the Baptist and Saint Benedict or Saint Romuald. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after G. Reni.
  • Idealized profile of Martha Hess, exemplifying Lavater's principle of the homogeneity of the face. Drawing, c. 1791, after J.H. Füssli.
  • A victim of the plague in Paris. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • Profiles of three men deemed untrustworthy by Lavater in his account of physiognomy. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Saint Francis of Assisi receiving the stigmata. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, 1830, after F.G. Gessi.
  • American soldiers warlike in an Eastern land; analogous to the invasion of plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • The Assumption of the Virgin Mary; below the apostles crowd around her empty tomb. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after Agostino Carracci.