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  • A wizened old barber who wears a pointed hat is shaving a young man. Mezzotint by J. Gole after C. Dusart, 1704/1737.
  • George Packwood: portrait on a prepared mount with watercolour border. Stipple engraving by A. Walkinshaw, 1796.
  • George Packwood: portrait on a prepared mount with watercolour border. Stipple engraving by A. Walkinshaw, 1796.
  • A man receiving a shave and a hair cut at the barbers representing the dangers of using unsterilised sharp instruments and contracting AIDS; an AIDS prevention advertisement in Maldivian by the Department of Public Health, Maldives. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • A Malabar barber cutting a customer's hair. Gouache drawing.
  • Hindu barber and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Hindu barber shaving a man's head. Gouache drawing.
  • Indian barber and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • A man is carrying a knife grinder's wheel on his back. Watercolour painting.
  • Wellcome museum, primitive medicine: hygiene
  • A knife sharpener at work with a whetstone, seated astride a bench. Watercolour by Zhou Pei Qun, ca. 1890.
  • Thomas Thorne in character as a barber shaving a man. Process print, ca. 1886.
  • Surgical Indian instruments: midwifery and circumcision knife
  • Bencao Gangmu -- C.16 Chinese materia medica, Shellfish
  • A midwife tending a pregnant woman at home: promoting the Kibiriti home birth kit in Kenya. Colour lithograph by AMREF, ca. 2000.
  • The five senses and death. Watercolour by Elizabeth Painter, 1957.
  • The financier Jules Mirès as a barber about to shave an old man representing the old city of Marseilles. Wood engraving by J.-B. E. Diolot.
  • Engraving from Micrographia, 1665, by Robert Hooke.
  • Composite heads: a florist, a writer, a musician and a barber made of their respective instruments. Coloured aquatint, ca. 1800.
  • Composite heads: a florist, a writer, a musician and a barber made of their respective instruments. Coloured aquatint, ca. 1800.
  • Blood clot on a sticking plaster
  • A seated barber shaving the back of a man's neck; another customer examines himself in a mirror and an attendant looks on. Coloured aquatint, 1800, after C. Gold.
  • The search : N. Kayser, merchant tailor, 256 West 31st Street, near 8th Avenue New York.
  • A barber is asked to shave a man who has no facial hair. Etching by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne).
  • Two line-drawn fishing boats with large fishing nets capturing a decorative circular object (the HIV virus structure) in between a sequence of illustrations demonstrating how the HIV virus can and can't be transmitted; an AIDS warning issued by the Gipuzkoako Hies Kontrako Elkarte Hiritarra Asociacion Ciudadana Anti-SIDA de Gipuzkoa. Colour lithograph by Xabi, 1993.
  • A barber shaving a man in his shop in 1825. Wood engraving after F. Barnard, 1875.
  • Men and boys working in a fork-grinding factory in Sheffield. Wood engraving by M. Jackson after J. Palmer, 1866.
  • John Bull being examined by eight doctors representing politicians, who diagnose his illness as cholera. Lithograph, ca. 1832.
  • Attributes of Pehar and his four companions in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Attributes of Pehar and his four companions in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.