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  • The dissection of a young, beautiful woman directed by J. Ch. G. Lucae (1814-1885) in order to determine the ideal female proportions. Chalk drawing by J. H. Hasselhorst, 1864.
  • Human skull, with details showing the bones of the lower jaw. Etching by or after J. Gamelin, 1778/1779.
  • A nightwatchman disturbs a body-snatcher who has dropped the stolen corpse he had been carrying in a hamper, while the anatomist runs away. Etching with engraving by W. Austin, 1773.
  • Skeleton, front view, with bones of the skull: seventeen figures. Line engraving by A. Bell, 1771/1783.
  • Unhygienic practices which lead to death from cholera. Colour lithograph by S. Pogorelskii, 192-.
  • Human skulls: two figures showing a skull of an Inuit person and a skull from a tomb near Niagara. Stipple engraving, 1843.
  • A skull in profile view, resting on two crossed femurs. Etching by Wenceslaus Hollar, 1652.
  • A scholar in his study. Engraving by N.J. Voyez after G. Dou.
  • The base of the human skull, seen from above (in section) and below, with outline diagrams included beneath. Etching by Martin after J. Gamelin, 1778/1779.
  • Animal skull, shown from beneath, above and from the side: four figures. Lithograph by R. Ball (?), 1857.
  • An alchemist reading in a romanticised laboratory setting. Watercolour painting, 19th century.
  • The phrenologist Bernard Hollander illustrating with his own head his system of cranial measurements. Photographs, c. 1902.
  • Plate XXIV. Trepanning or trephining of the cranium.
  • The Virgin Mary or Mary Magdalene before the crucified Christ. Watercolour painting.
  • A child with two skulls joined together at the vertex. Engraving by J. Basire after W. Bell.
  • A barber-surgeon extracting stones from a woman's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity). Watercolour by J. Cats, 1787, after B. Maton.
  • An anatomical dissection in the ancient world, in a landscape setting. Engraving, 1801.
  • A surgeon treating a patient's foot, in the background another surgeon is examining a patient in a surgery. Line engraving by F.A. Schröder after A. Brouwer.
  • Anatomy of the heart, cranium, and brain : adapted to the purposes of the medical and surgical practitioner; to which is added, in notes, observations on the laws of life and sensation / by Alexander Ramsay.
  • The phrenologist Bernard Hollander illustrating with his own head his system of cranial measurements. Photographs, c. 1902.
  • Skull of a Caucasian person: three figures. Chromolithograph by H.J. Ruprecht, 1877.
  • The teeth of a child between four and five years of age.
  • An alchemist poring over a book, on his table stand an hour-glass, a skull, and an astrological globe. Engraving by J.N. Tardieu after D. Teniers the younger, 1640/1650.
  • A nightwatchman disturbs a body-snatcher who has dropped the stolen corpse he had been carrying in a hamper, while the anatomist runs away. Etching with engraving by W. Austin, 1773.
  • A skull from Peru, with extensive caries or flaking decoration. Photograph.
  • A skull: two figures. Watercolour by J. Mongrédien, ca. 1880.
  • Friedrich Roth-Scholtz. Line engraving by D.C.C. Fleischmann, 1725.
  • Human skull, with details showing the teeth and bones of the lower jaw and two sections through the skull. Etching by or after J. Gamelin, 1778/1779.
  • A model of a skull, carved in ivory: front view. Photograph, 1936.
  • Muscles of the eye and larynx and the head shown with a section of skull removed. Colour mezzotint by J.F. Gautier d'Agoty after himself, 1745-1746.