Wellcome uses cookies.

Read our policy
Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
Events
539 results
  • The anatomy of the external forms of man : intended for the use of artists, painters and sculptors / By J. Fau ; edited with additions by Robert Knox. With an atlas of twenty-eight plates, quarto.
  • The anatomy of the external forms of man : intended for the use of artists, painters and sculptors / By J. Fau ; edited with additions by Robert Knox. With an atlas of twenty-eight plates, quarto.
  • The anatomy of the external forms of man : intended for the use of artists, painters and sculptors / By J. Fau ; edited with additions by Robert Knox. With an atlas of twenty-eight plates, quarto.
  • An advertisement for the Panorama, Leicester Square, London: showing the battle of Trafalgar. Coloured engraving by Lane, 1806, after H. A. Barker.
  • Sir James Earle. Mezzotint by R. Dunkarton after W. Beechey.
  • A young child with protruding tongue, showing signs of mental deficiency, sitting on a large upholstered chair. Photograph by Davis.
  • Saint Pancras smallpox hospital, London. Oil painting.
  • Saint Pancras smallpox hospital, London. Oil painting.
  • A woman personifying astronomy. Engraving by J. Caldwall after W. Collins after R. Willett.
  • Saint Pancras smallpox hospital, London. Oil painting.
  • Osiris. Engraving by J. Record, 1785, after W. Collins after R. Willett.
  • London labour and the London poor : the condition and earnings of those that will work, cannot work, and will not work / by Henry Mayhew.
  • Head and shoulders of a young man with protruding ears. Photograph by Davis and Sons.
  • Down's syndrome in two young men and a young woman. Three photographs.
  • A girl with Down's syndrome, sitting in front of an ornate wooden screen, holding a small posy of flowers. Photograph by Chas Marshall.
  • A girl, sitting on a stone bench with a fan folded at her side. Photograph by A. Reston.
  • A group of hospital staff, including nurses wearing matching straw hats, standing outdoors. Photograph.
  • A young man, showing signs of mental deficiency, leaning awkwardly against the back of a chair. Photograph by Davis.
  • A very young girl, showing signs of mental deficiency, seated with her hands clasped upon her lap. Photograph by W. Moscrop.
  • Two boys, one sitting and one standing: the former appears physically deformed. Photograph, 1899.
  • Side profile of a young woman with a misshapen head, wrapped in a tartan shawl, probably in a hospital. Photograph.
  • Metropolitan Lunatic Asylum, Kew, Victoria (Australia): children with their nurse in the summer house. Photograph.
  • Down's syndrome in a young woman. Photograph.
  • A brain, viewed from the side, supposedly from a subject with mental deficiency. Photograph by N. Goulton May.
  • Brain of someone described as an "idiot". Process print.
  • Metropolitan Lunatic Asylum, Kew, Victoria (Australia): patients, mostly children, entertaining some seated adults in a small wooden hall. Photograph.
  • New York State Institute: a group of girls with Down's syndrome, standing on some steps. Photograph.
  • A young woman with a short fringe, showing signs of mental deficiency. Photograph by J. Davis.
  • Down's syndrome seen in people from the same family. Four photographs.
  • Down's syndrome: in two young men holding hands, one sitting and one standing. Photograph.