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  • Claude Ambroise Seurat, known as the 'Human skeleton'. Stipple engraving by R. Cruikshank, 1825.
  • Claude Ambroise Seurat, known as the 'Human skeleton'. Stipple engraving by R. Cruikshank, 1825.
  • People loading corn on to a horse-drawn cart at harvest-time. Engraving by J. Cousen after J. Linnell.
  • Yama holding the Bhavacakra or Wheel of life. Gouache.
  • Yama holding the Bhavacakra or Wheel of life. Gouache.
  • 3rd self-portrait.
  • 3rd self-portrait.
  • 7th self-portrait.
  • 7th self-portrait.
  • Yama holding the Bhavacakra or Wheel of life. Ink drawing.
  • Yama holding the Bhavacakra or Wheel of life. Ink drawing.
  • A man suffering from social anxiety disorder, illustration
  • Three perspectives of a head divided according to phrenological 'faculties', with key. Colour pen drawing.
  • Using Virtual Reality to treat paranoia
  • The human brain, divided according to Bernard Hollander's system of phrenology. Process print with pen and ink, c. 1902.
  • Face of a man with myxoedema
  • Chinese/Japanese Pulse Image chart: Tough Pulse (laomai)
  • A head divided into thirty seven compartments, each containing an image representing a phrenological faculty. Wood engraving, after O.S. Fowler, c. 1840.
  • Chinese/Japanese Pulse Image chart: Slow Pulse (chimai)
  • Colombia: a covered passage providing a prospect of the Cordillera mountains across a ravine. Coloured etching by C. Empson, 1836.
  • Colombia: a shed on the banks of a lagoon of the River Cienega. Coloured etching by C. Empson, 1836.
  • A man (Choo Yihleang), facing front, with a massive spherical tumour on the right side of his neck. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, 1838.
  • A man (Woo Kinshing), facing front, with a massive tumour on the left side of his trunk. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, 1837.