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  • A Chinese seated figure with grey beard and black hat, with fan. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • Anatomical male figure with facial features and a beard. Photograph, 1960/1990?, of a reproduction after a (medieval ?) drawing.
  • A Chinese seated figure with grey beard and black hat, hand on forehead. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • A Chinese deity with dark complexion and beard, seated on a throne. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • John (?) Bishop (seated centre with beard ?), a surgeon, with his staff (of Edinburgh Royal Infirmary ?). Photograph, 1870.
  • A Chinese seated figure with wild beard, pictured with bow and quiver of arrows. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • A Chinese seated figure with grey beard and black hat, with pen and paper. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • An old man with a beard in a walking frame with an hourglass; representing lifelong learning. Engraving by A. Salamanca, 1538.
  • Two species of hawk's beard plant (Crepis species): flowering and fruiting stems. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.
  • The head and a shoulders of a man with a long beard and a moustache that is combed upwards. Engraving by P. Galle.
  • Old Parr, an elderly apothecary with an extremely long beard mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar. Pen drawing by Matthews(?), 1861(?).
  • Old Parr, an elderly apothecary with an extremely long beard mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar. Pen drawing by Matthews(?), 1861(?).
  • The head and a shoulders of a man with a long beard and a moustache that is combed upwards. Engraving by P. Galle.
  • Old Parr, an elderly apothecary with an extremely long beard mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar. Pen drawing by Matthews(?), 1861(?).
  • A girl about to skip using a rope made out of a 17-foot-long beard, belonging to Hans Langseth of North Dakota. Photograph, 192-.
  • A Chinese figure with white beard, seated wearing indigo coloured silk robes with a brown border and buff undergarments. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • [Undated handbill (June 1894?) advertising Madame Howard, the African lion-faced lady at 199 Borough, London. She appears to have been a black woman with a beard].
  • A beardless young man asks his hair-dresser to shave his beard: another hair-dresser and his client look on in amusement. Coloured wood engraving after John Leech.
  • A Chinese seated figure, full frontal, with grey beard, buff coloured robes with a blue border and wearing a black cap. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • [Undated handbill (August 1885?) advertising Howard's Grand Pavilion of Living Wonders featuring Madame Howard, the African lion-faced lady. She appears to have been a black woman with a beard].
  • A man on horseback in the hills accompanied by other men on foot: a man with a white beard is manhandled as spies look on from the hills. Gouache painting.
  • [Victorian handbill (May 24th 1852) advertising 21 year old Madame Fortunne of Geneva and her 4 inch long, bushy, black beard, on exhibition at Linwood Gallery, Leicester Square, London. ].
  • The head of a man with a moustache and beard: above, with some of the skin removed; below, showing part of the brain. Line engraving by A. Bell after G. Bidloo, 1798.
  • An Italian man with an extremely long bushy beard requesting a barber to confirm his advertised rate of a shave for one penny; the barber is forced to agree. Etching by G. Cruikshank.
  • Now exhibiting at 432, West Strand : an extraordinary living phenomenon of the female sex, thirty years old, and only four feet high, having a beard six inches in length, with whiskers and moustachios.
  • Now exhibiting at 432, West Strand : an extraordinary living phenomenon of the female sex, thirty years old, and only four feet high, having a beard six inches in length, with whiskers and moustachios.
  • [Undated handbill (October 1883?) advertising Madame Howard, the African lion-faced lady at Howard's Grand Pavilion of Living Wonders, 162 New Cut, Waterloo, London. She appears to have been a black woman with a beard].
  • Christmas celebrated by people playing instruments, eating and drinking: a man with white hair and a long white beard sitting watching a small man stirring punch in a bowl. Engraving by T. Hollis, 1851, after R.W. Buss.
  • [Undated handbill (August 1885?) advertising Howard's Grand Pavilion of Living Wonders waxwork and fine art gallery (at the Mitcham Fair?), featuring Madame Howard, the African lion-faced lady. She appears to have been a black woman with a beard].
  • A woman helps to adjust a dress worn by the curate as the barber examines his reflection in a mirror with a beard, in a room furnished with a set of antlers over the door. Engraving by William Hogarth.