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  • Elements of phrenology / [George Combe].
  • Elements of phrenology / [George Combe].
  • Elements of phrenology / [George Combe].
  • Elements of phrenology / [George Combe].
  • Elements of phrenology / [George Combe].
  • Outlines of phrenology / [George Combe].
  • Elements of phrenology / [George Combe].
  • A system of phrenology / [George Combe].
  • M0006706: Portrait of George Combe (1788 - 1858)
  • George Combe. Mezzotint by R. M. Hodgetts after Sir D. Macnee.
  • George Combe. Mezzotint by R. M. Hodgetts after Sir D. Macnee.
  • George Combe. Stipple engraving by C. H. Jeens, 1878, after Sir D. Macnee.
  • George Combe lecturing on phrenology, portrayed with protuberances on his head. Coloured lithograph 1826.
  • George Combe lecturing on phrenology, portrayed with protuberances on his head. Coloured lithograph 1826.
  • George Combe lecturing on phrenology to a mixed audience in his Edinburgh home?; presented as a monkey with a phrenological head. Lithograph.
  • Phrenological diagrams of the skull and brain, with three portraits: Laurence Sterne, a mathematician, and Shakespeare; exemplifying the faculties of wit, number and imagination respectively. Engraving by H. Sawyer after W. Byam, 1818.
  • Phrenological diagrams of the skull and brain, with three portraits: Laurence Sterne, a mathematician, and Shakespeare; exemplifying the faculties of wit, number and imagination respectively. Engraving by H. Sawyer after W. Byam, 1818.
  • Phrenological chart with portraits of historical figures and illustrations of skulls exhibiting racial characteristics. Lithograph by G. E. Madeley, authored by C. Donovan, c. 1850.
  • A head containing over thirty images symbolising the phrenological faculties. Wood engraving, c. 1845, after O.S. Fowler (?).
  • Three perspectives of a head divided according to phrenological 'faculties', with key. Colour pen drawing.
  • Sixteen feet in profile, of women and men: a parody of phrenology. Coloured etching.
  • Sixteen feet in profile, of women and men: a parody of phrenology. Coloured etching.
  • Sixteen feet in profile, of women and men: a parody of phrenology. Coloured etching.
  • Sixteen feet in profile, of women and men: a parody of phrenology. Coloured etching.
  • The human head, divided according to the system of phrenology. Coloured lithograph by C. Ingrey, 1824.
  • A triumphant American slave woman representing quassia (ingredient in acoholic drinks) is carried aloft by two brewers; representing the outcry against a tax on private brewing (?). Etching by J. Gillray, 1806.
  • Phrenological propensities: adhesiveness, inhabitiveness, constructiveness, combativeness, destructiveness; illustrated by a couple stuck in a bog, a snail in its shell, a spider in its web, a huge brawl, a bull in a china shop. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826.
  • Phrenological propensities: adhesiveness, inhabitiveness, constructiveness, combativeness, destructiveness; illustrated by a couple stuck in a bog, a snail in its shell, a spider in its web, a huge brawl, a bull in a china shop. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826.