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  • The phrenologist Gall examines the heads of two young society people. Coloured line engraving.
  • A corpulent woman provides the pustule for the vaccination of a child by a couple of dandified doctors. Etching, c. 1800.
  • A corpulent woman provides the pustule for the vaccination of a child by a couple of dandified doctors. Etching, c. 1800.
  • A phrenologist and some society people in a parlour. Coloured lithograph by H. Jannin after L.C. Bommier (?).
  • A beloved pet dog receives an enema. Line engraving by de Launay the younger after Lavrinet.
  • A young man who walks straight into a butcher delivery boy's meat tray (poking his eye out), while the boy looks the opposite way. Etching by Richard Dighton.
  • Fashionable London comes to observe Sunday lunch at the Foundling Hospital. Wood engraving by J. Swain, 1872, after H.T. Green.
  • A bearded dandy admiring the ladies through his monocle on 'Buffers Walk' in the public gardens. Coloured wood engraving by W.H. Harrison.
  • Fashionable London comes to observe Sunday lunch at the Foundling Hospital. Wood engraving by J. Swain, 1872, after H.T. Green.
  • Marie de Medici dressed in warlike form as Minerva, goddess of arts. Engraving by J.B. Massé, 1708, after J.M. Nattier after P.P. Rubens.
  • A bearded dandy admiring the ladies through his monocle on 'Buffers Walk' in the public gardens. Coloured wood engraving by W.H. Harrison.
  • A medical consultation while a patient dies; a group of soldiers with a family; men in an artist's loft. Coloured lithograph c. 1840.
  • An elaborately dressed woman pampers a man in a vapour-bath. Coloured etching after G. de Cari.
  • An elaborately dressed woman pampers a man in a vapour-bath. Coloured etching after G. de Cari.
  • An elaborately dressed woman pampers a man in a vapour-bath. Coloured etching after G. de Cari.
  • An elaborately dressed woman pampers a man in a vapour-bath. Wood engraving after G. de Cari.
  • In a crowded salon, a wigmaker fits wigs according to occupation; representing the character stereotyping of Gall's phrenology. Coloured etching by J.E. Marcus after J. Smies, c. 1810.
  • A group of fashionable physicians gathered around a sick patient listen to one of their number proclaiming the virtue of leeches. Coloured lithograph after E.J. Pigal.
  • Seven clergymen watch as a physician bathes the feet of a sick, aristocratic lady; suggesting the uncertainty of the clergy faced with the ousting of the aristocracy in France. Coloured etching by S.J., 1791.
  • The German spa, Brighton: pump room and surrounding grounds. Aquatint by M.U. Sears after himself.
  • An emaciated old man is transformed by four beauticians. Coloured lithograph by Ch.-J. Fuhr after Ch. Bargue, 1852.
  • Two men wearing revolving top hats with several attachments for optical aids and tobacco etc. Coloured etching by R. Seymour, 1830.
  • Two men wearing revolving top hats with several attachments for optical aids and tobacco etc. Coloured etching by R. Seymour, 1830.
  • Two men wearing revolving top hats with several attachments for optical aids and tobacco etc. Coloured etching by R. Seymour, 1830.
  • A Swiss farmer standing outside a chalet holding a bucket of fresh milk. Photographic postcard, 19--.
  • A Swiss farmer standing outside a chalet holding a bucket of fresh milk. Photographic postcard, 19--.
  • Elizabeth Gunning astride a cannon firing by the pen of her mother a blast of forged letters at the facade of Blenheim - which a figure defends with a blast of excrement - the Duchess of Bedford offers her petticoat as cover while General Gunning retreats from the battlefield; representing the Gunning scandal. Etching by J. Gillray, 1791.
  • A Swiss mountain guide in profile carrying heavy rope. Photographic postcard by E. Gyger, 193-.
  • Two men standing side by side in the woods. Photographic postcard, ca. 1910.
  • Two men standing side by side in the woods. Photographic postcard, ca. 1910.