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  • Human skulls: four figures. Line engraving, 1780/1800?.
  • Twelve views of a skull with two sketches of men. Pen and ink drawing.
  • A gigantic human skull, representing death, spewing out poison in the form of warships armed with poison gas. Colour lithograph, 192-.
  • Muscles of the head, neck and shoulders. Colour mezzotint by J.F. Gautier d'Agoty after himself, 1745-1746.
  • Still life with a ledger, a skull and other objects. Oil painting, 1766.
  • A profile of a man bisected with a curve for measuring the brain, skulls of a Turk (top right), a Georgian woman (bottom left) and a Caribbean (bottom right). Coloured engraving by H. Adlard, 1824.
  • 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.
  • Human skull, seen from above. Line engraving, 1780/1800?.
  • The phrenologist Bernard Hollander illustrating with his own head his system of cranial measurements. Photographs, c. 1902.
  • Human skull: right lateral view. Lithograph, 18--.
  • 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.
  • Skulls and skull fragments, showing different shapes of skulls and variations in sutures, after Eustachius. Etching by I. Basire, 1743, after an engraving, c. 1552.
  • Skulls: eleven skulls arranged on three shelves. Photograph.
  • Skull of a soldier: frontal view. Lithograph, 1835.
  • The "Galilee skull": entrance to the cave in which it was found. Photograph, 1925.
  • Skull: two figures, showing side and front views. Watercolour by J. Mongrédien, ca. 1880.
  • Assam: a burial place of the Konyak Naga tribe, with heads placed in sandstone hollows above ground. Photograph attributed to Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf, ca. 1937.
  • Human skull, rear view , with details showing individual bones: above, a tonal etching of the skull, below, an outline diagram. Etching by or after J. Gamelin, 1778/1779.
  • An anxious man comparing his own head to a skull, using the technique of phrenology. Coloured lithograph after T. Lane, c. 1825.
  • Delineatio partis sinistrae cranii devi Rumoldi martyris, Mechliniensium patroni colendisimi / concordat cum originali, attestor F.A. Vanderlinden, Urbis ac provinciae Mechlin Secretarius ; G. Herreyns delinearit.
  • A figure with an orange beak and a vest bearing the words 'Leo' moving three coloured cups around a green playing board bearing a skull, a pink heart and a clover leaf; an advertisement for the Mainz 'Stop AIDS' Festival on 23 August 1989 at the Kulturzentrum [Mainz], organised by the Landeszentrale für Gesundheitserziehung in Rheinland-Pfalz e.V. Colour lithograph by Klaus.
  • Human skulls: four figures. Line engraving, 1780/1800?.
  • The ear and the temple after Duverney, Valsalva and Ruysch. Engraving by Prevost, 1762.
  • An operator treating a patient's foot; a crowd of people is gathered around watching the work. Line engraving by P. Quast.
  • Saint Mary Magdalen. Lithograph by F. Hanfstaengl, 1839, after P.G. Batoni, c.1742.
  • Three perspectives of a skull, sectioned and numbered according to Gall's system of phrenology. Etching by Mutlow.
  • A male brain, sectioned vertically. Process print, 1901, after etching, 1809.
  • Muscles of the head and neck, the head raised and the lower jaw removed exposing the teeth and the zygomatic arch. Colour mezzotint by J. F. Gautier d'Agoty after himself, 1745-1746.
  • Midwifery and other instruments, including forceps and pliers. Engraving by W. Kelsall after C. Varley.
  • George Combe lecturing on phrenology, portrayed with protuberances on his head. Coloured lithograph 1826.