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  • Civil engineering: railway bridges at Kaunas. Lithograph by J. R. Jobbins after F. H. Horne.
  • A drinking-horn (rhyton) in the form of the head of a deer. Engraving, 17--.
  • Cupping, using a horn placed on the patient's back, Africa. Photograph by J. Uribe, 1920/1940.
  • A 14th century silver drinking horn with explanatory text. Wood-engraving, late 19th century.
  • Civil engineering: a railway bridge at Cologne. Lithograph by J. R. Jobbins after E. H. Horne.
  • A huntsman accompanied by his dog runs through the forest blowing his horn. Woodcut and letterpress.
  • Devotees of Krishna and followers of Sri Caitanya, dancing with drums, flags and narsingh horn. Chromolithograph.
  • John Hunter blowing a horn, with animals studied by him. Watercolour attributed to J. Foot, 1822.
  • Sounding the horn at the Jewish new year service. Engraving with etching by B. Picart, ca. 1733.
  • A silver drinking horn dating from the 14th century. Engraving by J. & H. S. Storer, 1821.
  • A man with a cutaneous horn-like growth on the scalp. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, ca. 1837.
  • Dick Horn and Harry Brandon dressed as pantomime dames for the Bow Bells concert party. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Dick Horn and Harry Brandon dressed as pantomime dames for the Bow Bells concert party. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Buck's horn plantain (Plantago coronopus L.): entire flowering plant with separate flower. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • A guard carrying a rifle, a sword and a bugle horn (?). Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A bishop ordains John Horne Tooke as a priest: the devil replaces the ordinand's virtues with vices. Engraving, 1771.
  • A drinking-horn (rhyton) in the form of the head of a deer: outline drawing with measurements. Engraving, 17--.
  • Five African statues, effegies including, top right, an anthropomorphic face surrounded by three horn-like structures, Ekoi [?], Nigeria
  • Johann Caspar Horner. Lithograph by Engelmann père and fils.
  • J. Caspar Horner. Stipple engraving by M. Esslinger, 1837.
  • John Tyndall demonstrating a fog-horn to Queen Victoria and her entourage. Wood engraving by T. B. Wirgman, c.1876.
  • The head of a rhinoceros with overgrown horn thought to be a unicorn. Coloured lithograph by (J.H.?) Clark after Campbell.
  • [Leaflet about Elizabeth French, "The horned woman", born at Tenterden in Kent giving a brief hsitpory from Sloane MS. 5246; page 101 with a mounted aquatint engraving. She had a horn-like growth at the back of her head ten inches long and several smaller stumps. The horn was not attached to her skull and caused pain if pressure was applied. She was hired by a Mr Fauks for a number of years until she broke her horn, which was bought by Sir Hans Sloane].
  • Man playing a borung, a type of horn played at Hindu festivals, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
  • Istanbul: the lesser burial ground attended by veiled women mourners, the Golden Horn in the background. Coloured lithograph by Henry Cooke, ca. 1860.
  • Two boys tease a carnival reveller wearing a grotesque mask, while a third boy blows a horn. Colour lithograph after L. Boilly, 1824.
  • St Augustine's National Schools, Salisbury Street, Liverpool. Wood engraving 1853, after H.P. Horner.
  • William Cobbett as a porcupine with a snake's tail with two taloned devils representing Sir Francis Burdett and John Horne Tooke. Coloured etching by S. De Wilde, 1808.
  • John Cottington, a chimney-sweep, in elaborate costume walking the street with smoking pipe and horn in hand, with descriptive verse. Line block, 18--, after engraving, c. 1620.
  • The hounds are given their quarry after a stag hunt in a court yard with a mounted horseman blowing the horn. Engraving by J. Couché after P. Wouwerman.