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  • "No secret remedy": natural solutions to baldness and corns. Lithograph after J. Bahr, 1909.
  • Instant hair growth gel Shaggy : banishes baldness in under an hour : just as unbelievable - most men expect someone with HIV will always tell them before sex ...
  • Instant hair growth gel Shaggy : banishes baldness in under an hour : just as unbelievable - most men expect someone with HIV will always tell them before sex ...
  • Instant hair growth gel Shaggy : banishes baldness in under an hour : just as unbelievable - most men expect someone with HIV will always tell them before sex ...
  • Area of baldness on the head of a boy suffering from alopecia areata, with the diseased hand of a sufferer of lupus shown below. Chromolithograph by E. Burgess (?), 1850/1880?.
  • Area of baldness on the head of a boy suffering from alopecia areata, with the diseased hand of a sufferer of lupus shown below. Chromolithograph by E. Burgess (?), 1850/1880?.
  • Instant hair growth gel Shaggy : banishes baldness in under an hour : just as unbelievable - most men expect someone with HIV will always tell them before sex ...
  • Elisha on his way to Bethel is taunted for his baldness by small boys: he curses them, and two she-bears come out of the woods and kill the boys. Engraving by C. Ryckemans after P. de Jode.
  • Bald Faced Hornet
  • Bald Faced Hornet
  • Bald areas on tongue
  • A bald eagle flying. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A bald eagle flying. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A beautiful young woman being examined by a bald fat doctor. Chromolithograph.
  • Portrait of Otto Brunfels at the age of 46, attributed to Hans Balding
  • A barber cutting the hair of a man who is largely bald. Coloured etching.
  • A sacred Chinese figure, bald, with abnormally high forehead. Painting by a Chinese painter.
  • A bald dwarf surrounded by luxurious cushions and curtains. Colour lithograph attributed to T.H. Maguire.
  • The circumcision of Christ by a bald mohel. Etching by F.G. Aliamet, 1765, after G. Reni.
  • A bald couple with a variety of wigs and body pieces which they are changing around between them. Coloured etching.
  • A bald man wearing a red loin cloth holding a club and a black cloth. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • A bald phrenologist with a large forehead examining a skull, in a 'vanitas' pose. Mezzotint by W.O. Geller, 1833, after T.H. Illidge.
  • A bald man wearing a loin cloth, holding a wooden club and a black piece of cloth. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • A fat, bald and half-dressed woman fans herself with her smock in hot weather while her maid comes to attend her. Coloured etching by Giles Grinagain, 1802.
  • The head of a bald man holding a phone to his ear; representing support provided by the London Lighthouse centre for those affected by HIV and AIDS. Lithograph.
  • An obese bald-headed old man seated in an armchair while a hairdresser pours macassar oil from a bottle on to his scalp. Etching after T. Rowlandson, ca. 1814.
  • Reflexion/Reaktion II by Salomé featuring a naked bald-headed man sitting on a red chair against a black backdrop as another man reaches out as if to comfort him with three other bald-headed men in different coloured shirts appearing to look up in despair; an advertisement for support for those affected by AIDS by Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by Salomé and Wolfgang Mudra, 1988.
  • A barber pinching a fat bald-headed man's nostrils; two men stand to the right, a woman to the left and another woman eavesdrops behind a door. Ink drawing with watercolour.
  • Above, an ephemera fly, a wild horse, a madagascar hedgehog, an euphorbia plant, a flying fish and a golden eagle; below, a stone falcon, a french eagle and a bald buzzard. Engraving by Heath.
  • Six of the seven gods of good fortune look on as one of their number writes the character for longevity with a brush tied to his elongated, bald head. Colour woodcut by Yoshitoshi, 1870s.