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  • Roman strigils of Bronze one has a name stamped on the handle
  • The head of a man with large goitres on his neck. Etching by Jusepe de Ribera.
  • China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
  • China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Two men in drag wearing face masks and patterned robes, holding fans. Photographic postcard, ca. 1910.
  • Two men in drag wearing face masks and patterned robes, holding fans. Photographic postcard, ca. 1910.
  • A man and woman use a redeveloped clyster for scatological, intoxicating purposes (?). Coloured reproduction of an etching after G. de Cari.
  • King Louis XIV receives an enema while sitting on a globe of the earth, thus besmearing it with ordure; around him, chaos reigns; symbolising the events following the Protestant rebellions of 1674 including the flight of the royal family from England in 1689. Engraving by R. de Hooghe, c. 1689.
  • King Louis XIV receives an enema while sitting on a globe of the earth, thus besmearing it with ordure; around him, chaos reigns; symbolising the events following the Protestant rebellions of 1674 including the flight of the royal family from England in 1689. Engraving by R. de Hooghe, c. 1689.
  • Interior of a hospital for horses. Drawing by G. Cruikshank,1835.
  • James II and Louis XIV and their allies portrayed as inmates of a lunatic asylum. Etching by R. de Hooghe, 1688.
  • James II and Louis XIV and their allies portrayed as inmates of a lunatic asylum. Etching by R. de Hooghe, 1688.
  • Douglas Byng in drag during a pantomime. Photograph, 1952.
  • Douglas Byng in drag during a pantomime. Photograph, 1952.
  • A large man carrying a tankard and a wooden half-barrel is singing, representing Jean Ramponneau and his drinking establishment in Paris, Engraving, 1760.
  • K. Scott-Barrie in character. Photographic postcard, 1911.
  • K. Scott-Barrie in character. Photographic postcard, 1911.
  • K. Scott-Barrie in character. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • K. Scott-Barrie in character as "The entertainer". Photographic postcard, ca. 1910.
  • K. Scott-Barrie in character as "The entertainer". Photographic postcard, ca. 1910.
  • K. Scott-Barrie in character. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • K. Scott-Barrie in character as "The entertainer". Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Douglas Byng in drag as a glamorous woman. Photograph, 194-.
  • Douglas Byng in drag as a glamorous woman. Photograph, 194-.
  • Douglas Byng in drag as a glamorous woman. Photograph, 194-.
  • Douglas Byng in drag as a glamorous woman. Photograph, 194-.
  • K. Scott-Barrie in character as "The entertainer". Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • A man and woman use a redeveloped clyster for scatological, intoxicating purposes (?). Coloured etching by P. Maleuvre after G. de Cari.
  • A man with goitre. Chalk drawing by J. de Ribera.