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  • A sadhu with raised arm and overgrown fingernails, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
  • An old Hindu ascetic or holy man: standing, with left arm raised above his head, and overgrown fingernails. Gouache painting.
  • A Hindu ascetic or holy man: standing, with withered left arm raised over his head, and overgrown fingernails. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • An Indian sadhu with very long fingernails is holding his arm up above his head. Ink drawing with pencil and watercolour by WB.
  • A hand with cracked and diseased fingernails; and the upper half of a face with severe hair loss (missing brows and lashes). Chromolithograph, c. 1888.
  • An old woman clipping her finger nails. Mezzotint by J.G. Haid after A. van Dijck (?), 1764-1767.
  • An old woman clipping her finger nails. Mezzotint by J.G. Haid after A. van Dijck (?), 1764-1767.
  • Two men, one cutting his finger-nails with a pair of scissors. Oil painting.
  • Two men, one cutting his finger-nails with a pair of scissors. Oil painting.
  • Illustration of hands diseased with Syphilis
  • A married woman having an affair, talking on the telephone to her lover; representing the risk of contracting AIDS through infidelity. Colour lithograph, 199-.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China: Yi Xin (Prince Gong). Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China: Yi Xin (Prince Gong). Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China: Yi Xin (Prince Gong). Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China: Yi Xin (Prince Gong). Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Hands of a woman with onychia mycosis
  • A man sitting backwards on a chair wearing formal attire. Photograph, 190-.
  • A man sitting backwards on a chair wearing formal attire. Photograph, 190-.
  • Hand covered in various symbols
  • Siam [Thailand]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1865.
  • Siam [Thailand]. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.
  • Siam [Thailand]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1865.
  • Siam [Thailand]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1865.
  • Siam [Thailand]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1865.
  • Siam [Thailand]. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.
  • A toothdrawer concealing the key from the patient. Oil painting by Luciano Nezzo.
  • A toothdrawer concealing the key from the patient. Oil painting by Luciano Nezzo.
  • Siam (Thailand]): two dancers. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.
  • Siam (Thailand]): two dancers. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.