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  • A man sleeps by a hot stove; a devil blows evil thoughts into his ear; Venus gestures towards the stove, and Cupid learns to walk on stilts in the foreground. Engraving by A. Dürer, ca. 1497-1498.
  • A singer of tales called Rinaldo, performing to an audience of men seated around him: he reads the story from a book and makes gestures with a stick. Coloured lithograph by Gatti & Dura after Gaet. Dura.
  • A woman making gestures of speech, having a snake around her wrist and a parrot on her head, is standing in a market place with a court scene to her left and a verdict being read out to her right; representing Dialectic. Engraving after M. de Vos.
  • A woman sitting in a chair making gestures of pain while a hair-dresser combs her back hair and a maidservant combs a tress pulled forward over her face: in the left background a man having his hair combed, he too looks pained. Coloured etching after T. Rowlandson, 1807.
  • Ticket of the London Hospital: Christ with his disciples, gesturing towards the sick. Steel engraving after W. Hogarth.
  • Saint Francis of Assisi gesturing away from an angel playing the violin. Line engraving by G.B. Pasqualini, 1623, after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.
  • Johann Jacob Scheuchzer, aged 59, holding a book in his left hand, gesturing towards shells, a fish, and a thistle. Mezzotint by T. Laub, 1731, after J. H. Heidegger.
  • Johann Jacob Scheuchzer, aged 59, holding a book in his left hand, gesturing towards shells, a fish, and a thistle. Mezzotint by T. Laub, 1731, after J. H. Heidegger.
  • A seated woman personifying history and a man representing time gesturing towards the socle of a pair of columns decorated with portrait ovals; above, Fame holds her trumpet. Engraving by C. Duflos le père, 1725, after J. Desmarets.
  • A young man with his arms crossed against his chest and a young woman gesturing with her hands as their woman braids material and their father sits reading a paper beyond; a representing a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Kuleana Centre for Sexual Health in Tanzania. Colour lithograph by Marco Tibasima, ca. 1997.
  • (Above) A man receiving a command from another, showing postures of timidity and arrogance; (below) a prisoner sits manacled while one gentleman prays and another waits with a sword, showing postures of prayer, desire for liberty, and fatuity. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1854.
  • The angel, announcing the birth of Christ, gives a lily to the Virgin. Etching by N. Le Mire after Dubois after F. Solimena.
  • The Virgin sets aside her Bible as the angel appears, holding out his hand and bearing lilies. Engraving after F. Barocci (?).
  • A soldier in the Prussian army. Drawing, c. 1794.
  • The announcing angel salutes the Virgin. Engraving.
  • A man challenges another; exhibiting boldness, classed phrenologically under the 'propensity' of combativeness. Steel engraving by Contenau, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • Bazile and Bartolo, characters from a story by Beaumarchais, representing the phrenological 'propensity' of secretiveness. Steel engraving by Geoffroy, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • The devil examining the head of a boy; three other boys lurk under the devil's wings; frontispiece to a manual on phrenology. Steel engraving by J.D. Nargeot, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • A man with a large, protruding head walking with a heavy gait; illustrating the reflective faculty in phrenology. Steel engraving by A. Devrits, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • The Annunciation to the Virgin in her room. Engraving by C.J. Visscher (?).
  • The Virgin, reading a scroll on a prie-dieu, is visited by the announcing angel. Engraving by M. van der Gucht.
  • The Annunciation to the Virgin, who kneels at a prie-dieu. Engraving by P. Pontius after C. Schut.
  • The angel announces to the Virgin that she will give birth to Christ. Watercolour.
  • The Annunciation to the Virgin, who reads from the Bible. Engraving by S.A. Bolswert after P.P. Rubens.
  • The Annunciation to the Virgin. Engraving by C. Cort after Titian.
  • A man sitting erect on a chair; representing pride as a type of the 'sentiment' of self esteem, a phrenological 'faculty'. Steel engraving by C. Devrits, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • The coronation of the Virgin. Coloured drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after I. di P. Francucci.
  • John the Baptist recognises Jesus as the messiah. Stipple engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1765, after D. Zampieri, il Domenichino.
  • An introverted and an extroverted man; exhibiting excessive and lacking propensities connected with the faculty of causality (reflective thought) in phrenology. Steel engraving by E. Monnin, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • John the Baptist embraces Jesus, whom he has been awaiting. Engraving by G. Rousselet after G. Reni.