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  • A woman consulting a fortune-teller by a stile. Engraving after Samuel J.E. Jones.
  • A woman having her palm read by a fortune-teller. Engraving after A.E. Chalon.
  • A young woman dressed in white faints after hearing the predictions of a fortune-teller. Engraving by L.S. (?) L'Empereur after H. van Gorp, 1800/1810.
  • An old fortune-teller is looking at a young woman's palm. Engraving, 1670/1700.
  • A lavishly dressed lady is having her fortune told by a woman with cards. Etching by West, 17--, after J.E. Schenau.
  • A fortune-teller reading the fortune of a young couple. Lithograph by L. Noël, 1830, after M. Gérard.
  • A countrywoman is telling the fortune of a young artist at the entrance to a chapel; two other artists walk past on the right; five paintings on the wall. Drawing by B. Pinelli, 1811.
  • Saint Ursula: she learns in a dream of her forthcoming martyrdom. Photogravure after D. Anderson after V. Carpaccio.
  • An old fortune-teller is reading a young woman's fortune by looking at tea leaves at the bottom of a cup. Engraving by C.W. Sharpe after N.J. Crowley, 1842.
  • Leonardo de Piero Dati, <i>La sfera</i>
  • Egyptian fortune-tellers outside a palace on the Nile. Etching by V. Pillement, J.L.C. Pauquet and F. Dequevauviller after L.F. Cassas, 1798.
  • A lavishly dressed lady accompanied by her black servant is having her fortune told by a seated old man wearing a black cloak. Etching by C. Heath, 1830, after A.E. Chalon.
  • A Turkish oracle; the torture wheel of Pope Pius VI. Engraving.
  • A Romany fortune-teller is reading the palm of a young woman suffering unrequited love; two other Romany women are leaning over a fence and children are sitting around a fire. Etching by P.W. Tomkins after H.W. Bunbury, 1791.
  • Arabic geomantic signs, wheel of life and death, the zodiac wheel and the Veronica. Engraving.
  • Roman augurs interpreting the flight of birds. Etching by J. Goupy, 1724, after S. Rosa.
  • David Teniers has a gipsy fortune-teller read the palm of his wife. Engraving by L. Surugue, 1750, after D. Teniers the younger.
  • Indian fortune-teller with client. Gouache drawing.
  • A rosary, a medallion of St Benedict, a charm said to cause loss of eyesight, and hands showing lines and features to be interpreted by palmistry (including lines forecasting violent death); all illustrating 'superstition'. Engraving.
  • Mary Squires the fortune teller foretells the future to Sir John Hill: she indicates that she has support from the Lord Mayor of London. Etching, 1753.
  • A young woman carrying a tray of small pamphlets holds one out for sale. Photogravure by Gebbie & Husson after C. Fould.
  • Mexico: a sheet of an Aztec document showing a serpent with other divinatory figures. Coloured aquatint by D. Klemi-Bonatti, ca. 1820.
  • William Smith. Mezzotint, 17--.