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  • A man is carrying a sphere on his shoulders; showing the bones of the right leg and the right arm. Steel engraving.
  • Joseph Clark, a contortionist. Line engraving by P. Tempest after M. Laroon.
  • How accidents happen : when lifting... when carrying... and remember / prepared for the Ministry of Labour and National Service by the Central Office of Information.
  • A clothed woman pours from a jug and kneels to a praying position. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A naked woman pours from a jug, kneels to a praying position and picks up a handkerchief. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A woman kneeling, holding a vase. Drawing, c. 1793.
  • Joseph Clark, a contortionist. Line engraving by Thornton.
  • Legs in various attitudes. Engraving after C. Le Brun.
  • The angel, announcing the birth of Christ, gives a lily to the Virgin. Etching by N. Le Mire after Dubois after F. Solimena.
  • The angel, announcing the birth of Christ, gives a lily to the Virgin. Engraving after G. Reni.
  • The Annunciation to the Virgin. Engraving by C. Bloemaert, c. 1650, after G. Lanfranco.
  • The risen Christ appears as gardener to Mary Magdalene. Engraving.
  • 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.
  • A shrouded woman (the Virgin Mary?) expressing veneration (left); a young man with inclining head also expressing veneration (right). Etching by B. Picart, 1713, after C. Le Brun.
  • 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.
  • Jesus appoints Peter as head of the church. Colour etching by A. Scacciati, 1766, after J. Chimenti.
  • The Annunciation to the Virgin, who kneels at a prie-dieu. Engraving by P. Pontius after C. Schut.
  • 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.
  • Hands in various gestures, including prayer and benediction. Engraving after C. Le Brun.
  • 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.
  • The Virgin, reading a scroll on a prie-dieu, is visited by the announcing angel. Engraving by M. van der Gucht.
  • The angel announces to the Virgin that she will give birth to Christ. Watercolour.
  • The risen Christ appears to the Virgin Mary. Line engraving by R. Strange, 1773, after himself, 1764, after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.
  • The Annunciation to the Virgin, who reads from the Bible. Engraving by S.A. Bolswert after P.P. Rubens.
  • Jesus appoints Peter as head of the church. Chromotypograph.
  • The risen Christ appears to the Virgin Mary. Line engraving by R. Strange, 1773, after himself, 1764, after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.
  • A woman in evening dress, attended by a man; the woman representing the 'sentiment' of self esteem, a 'faculty' according to phrenology. Steel engraving by J-I-L. Desjardins, 1847, after H. Bruyères.