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  • A rowdy dinner of British political radicals at John Horne Tooke's house in Wimbledon: Tooke and Burdett wear bonnets rouges. Coloured etching by Thomaso Scrutiny (Samuel De Wilde?), 1808.
  • [Small leaflet advertising appearances by Roberts's Greatest Phenomenon of the Age (late of the Crystal Palace), a "young lady born without arms", at The Horn of Plenty, Whitecross Street [London?]].
  • Three horses standing in a field, listening to the horn of a huntsman, who is seen with his horse and hounds in the woods beyond. Process print after L. Cheviot, 1904.
  • Central African Republic: cupping using a horn which is placed on the patient's lower back and sucked by the medical practitioner who squats over him. Photograph by Antonin Marius Vergiat, ca. 1935.
  • Genuine Swiss gruyere cheese made in Switzerland : William Tell brand : 8 oz net : 12 portions / Horner's Creamery.
  • Doctrine of signatures: (above) a plant (arum) with seed-pods resembling the horn of a unicorn, and (below) a unicorn's head. Coloured ink drawing by C. Etheridge, 1906, after G.B. Della Porta.
  • The City of London Lying-in Hospital in the background, with a mother breastfeeding and two children at her feet, a man in rustic garb and a horn of plenty on the left. Engraving.
  • At Fawk's booth in the upper Moorfields, is to be seen a miracle of nature, being a woman that has a horn growing on the back part of her head, full 10 inches long ...
  • At Fawk's booth in the upper Moorfields, is to be seen a miracle of nature, being a woman that has a horn growing on the back part of her head, full 10 inches long ...
  • Pentastomes from lung of Horned Viper
  • A long-horned whidaw goat. Etching.
  • A horned screamer bird. Etching with engraving.
  • A horned viper. Coloured engraving, ca. 1792.
  • Positively one day only! Wednesday, April 3rd : Two performances - afternoon at 3, evening at 8. Sylvester Bleeker, manager. General Tom Thumb, his beautiful wife, Commodore Nutt, and Miss Minnie Warren on this, their positively farewell visit ... / Horn's Assembly Rooms, Kennington.
  • There is a young colossus to be seen at the sign of the French Horn and Mansion House, opposite the Mansion House : being a boy fifteen years of age, seven feet high, and every way proportioned ...
  • There is a young colossus to be seen at the sign of the French Horn and Mansion House, opposite the Mansion House : being a boy fifteen years of age, seven feet high, and every way proportioned ...
  • A rhinoceros with a phallic-like horn and an elongated condom with the message in French: "What distinguishes humans from animals is (it is said) intelligence"; a statement about AIDS. Colour silk screen print after A. Le Quernec, 1993.
  • A two-horned rhinoceros. Etching by P. Mazell.
  • A long-horned beetle (Dynastes hercules). Coloured etching.
  • A short horned cow. Lithograph by J. Ward, ca 1824.
  • A short horned bull. Lithograph by J. Ward, ca 1837.
  • A cow and bull of the Durham short-horned breed. Etching, ca 1822.
  • A cow and bull of the Devon middle-horned breed. Etching, ca 1822.
  • A cow and bull of the Midland long-horned breed. Etching, ca 1822.
  • Above, a biaculeated trunk-fish; below, a horned trunk-fish. Engraving by Heath.
  • Two middle-horned breeds of cow, the Sussex and Herefordshire. Etching, ca 1822.
  • A short horned cow. Etching by H. Beckwith, ca 1848, after H. Strafford.
  • The Harleian miscellany: a collection of scarce, curious, and entertaining pamphlets and tracts, as well in manuscript as in print / selected from the library of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford ; Interspersed with historical, political, and critical annotations, by William Oldys, and some additional notes, by Thomas Park. [With index by T.H. Horne].
  • A short horned ox. Etching by H. Beckwith, ca 1839, after W.H. Davies.
  • A short horned bull. Etching by H. Beckwith, ca 1839, after W.H. Davis.