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  • Famine in Mysore, India: six emaciated men wearing loin cloths, five sitting and one lying on a mat. Photograph attributed to Willoughby Wallace Hooper, 1876/1878.
  • A strong man supporting a weak and emaciated woman; representing the work of the Zonnestraal sanatorium for the tuberculous. Colour lithograph by A. Hahn, 1932.
  • Monumental stone figure from St. Mary Overies Church: an emaciated figure partially wrapped in a shroud, front view. Engraving with etching by William Deeble, 1815.
  • Famine in Mysore, India: six emaciated men wearing loin cloths, five sitting and one lying on a mat. Photograph attributed to Willoughby Wallace Hooper, 1876/1878.
  • Calais gate: the Host is administered to sick people, while emaciated and ragged French people go about their business. Etching by C. Mosley after W. Hogarth.
  • An emaciated naked man, displaying large swellings on his neck and groin, with smaller swellings visible on his chest, arms, abdomen and thigh. Process print, 18--.
  • A standing young man, naked and viewed from the front in full length; he appears emaciated. Photograph by L. Haase after H.W. Berend, c. 1865.
  • A standing young man, naked and viewed from the front in full length; he appears emaciated. Photograph by L. Haase after H.W. Berend, c. 1865.
  • Friern Hospital, London: an emaciated old man, naked, with deformed limbs and stitch marks running from beneath his chin to his penis; three views from different angles. Photograph, 1890/1910.
  • An ill and emaciated horse is standing next to and looking down at the carcass of a dead horse while a dog is approaching the carcass. Etching after P. Potter.
  • An emaciated Hindu ascetic or holy man, seated on a knoll under a tree, with his left hand held over his head; a richly dressed woman pours liquid into his bowl. Gouache painting.
  • A black woman nurses an emaciated child beneath a cross; surrounded by text relating to Christ's crucifixion with a map of Africa in the background; representing the suffering experienced by AIDS/HIV victims; advertisement by CAFOD. Colour lithograph.
  • A black woman nurses an emaciated child beneath a cross; surrounded by text relating to Christ's crucifixion with a map of Africa in the background; representing the suffering experienced by AIDS/HIV victims; advertisement by CAFOD. Colour lithograph.
  • The dissection of an emaciated, grey cadaver by an anatomist who is making an abdominal incision with a scalpel with his right hand while his left hand is placed on the cadaver's hip. Colour process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.
  • Two people visiting an emaciated man with AIDS, a table of fruit, a doctor examining a woman, a line of clothes and different animals; an advertisement about ways in which AIDS and HIV are not contracted by Spitnac, Societal Projects Information Training Networking and Consultancy Services. Colour lithograph, 1997?.
  • A doctor places a thermometer in a female patient's mouth, an emaciated man and a skin rash representing a message about symptoms that suggest you have AIDS; one of a series of 4 AIDS education posters by the Population and Community Development Association (PDA) in Thailand. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A dilapidated hay wain, pulled by emaciated donkeys (Mental and Physical Weakness) is driven by a young man (Torpor) and carries two women in rags (Poverty and Humility) while three women (Fragility, Patience and Servitude) accompany the cart; representing the attributes of human existence. Engraving by Cornelis Cort, 1564, after M. van Heemskerck.
  • Two HIV virus cells above the world bearing the words 'HIV' against a backdrop incorporating an emaciated AIDS victim, someone receiving an injection and Arabic script; an advertisement for the Kuwait Fourth International Conference on AIDS in 1994 by the KFAS, The Kuwait Ministry of Health and the World Health Organisation. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • A dart board with condoms and the numbers 0 to 2 on the outer ring and syringes and numbers 1 to 12 on the inner ring; the centre bears two figures in suits (one white, the other black) pointing at each other on the upper section and the emaciated bodies of a black and a white AIDS victim on the lower section; an advertisement for an exhibition of images about the fight against AIDS by Artis. Colour lithograph by Chéri Samba,1990.
  • [Newspaper cutting, "Easily rattled" featuring a cartoon of a man talking to a Living Skeleton. ].
  • [Newspaper cutting, "Easily rattled" featuring a cartoon of a man talking to a Living Skeleton. ].
  • The living skeleton : drawn from nature / by Robert Crukshank.
  • Boniface : there have been several "living skeletons" exhibited in England from time to time. The most famous, as the first of the kind, was Claude Seurat, a Frenchman, who was shown in London during the summer of the year 1825.
  • Barry's living wonders will exhibit here : no.1 & 2 Burnett's Road, near the Agricultural Hall, during the Cattle Show next week : the greatest living wonder ever seen : the double man : half man & half woman alive!.
  • [Undated handbill (1835?) advertising 'L'anatomie vivante, or Living Skeleton" at the York Hotel, William Square (Liverpool?)].
  • [Undated handbill (1835?) advertising 'L'anatomie vivante, or Living Skeleton" at the York Hotel, William Square (Liverpool?)].
  • A changeling child : to be seen next door to the Black Raven, in West Smithfield, during the time of the FAIR, being a living skeleton, taken by a Venetian Galley, from a Turkish vessel in the archipelago ...
  • Extraordinary natural curiosity : a living skeleton.
  • Extraordinary natural curiosity : a living skeleton.
  • [Newspaper cutting, "A soft snap" (in the series 'snap-shots') featuring a cartoon and a Living Skeleton and a Wild Man of Borneo talking about a Two-Headed Man. ].