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  • A woman consulting a fortune-teller by a stile. Engraving after Samuel J.E. Jones.
  • A woman having her palm read by a fortune-teller. Engraving after A.E. Chalon.
  • A young woman dressed in white faints after hearing the predictions of a fortune-teller. Engraving by L.S. (?) L'Empereur after H. van Gorp, 1800/1810.
  • An old fortune-teller is looking at a young woman's palm. Engraving, 1670/1700.
  • A lavishly dressed lady is having her fortune told by a woman with cards. Etching by West, 17--, after J.E. Schenau.
  • A fortune-teller reading the fortune of a young couple. Lithograph by L. Noël, 1830, after M. Gérard.
  • A fortune-teller performing among a group of women. Wood engraving after Nicolas Gysis.
  • An old fortune-teller is reading a young woman's fortune by looking at tea leaves at the bottom of a cup. Engraving by C.W. Sharpe after N.J. Crowley, 1842.
  • Br̥hatsāmudrikaśāstra / strīpuruṣalakṣaṇa,Paṇḍitanārāyaṇaprasādamiśrakr̥tabhāṣāṭīkāsahita.
  • The book of knowledge; treating of the wisdom of the ancients. In four parts. I Shewing the various and wonderful operations of the signs and planets ... II. Prognostications for ever, necessary to keep the body in health ... III. An abstract of the art of physiognomy and palmestry ... IV. The farmer's kalendar ... / Written by Errapater ... Made English by W. Lilley ... To which is added, The dealer's directory; containing, 1. The true form of all sorts of bills, bonds ... 2. The best method of getting in debts ... 3. An account of weights, measures, numbers, coins.
  • Egyptian fortune-tellers outside a palace on the Nile. Etching by V. Pillement, J.L.C. Pauquet and F. Dequevauviller after L.F. Cassas, 1798.
  • Saint Ursula: she learns in a dream of her forthcoming martyrdom. Photogravure after D. Anderson after V. Carpaccio.
  • A lavishly dressed lady accompanied by her black servant is having her fortune told by a seated old man wearing a black cloak. Etching by C. Heath, 1830, after A.E. Chalon.
  • Leonardo de Piero Dati, <i>La sfera</i>
  • A Romany fortune-teller is reading the palm of a young woman suffering unrequited love; two other Romany women are leaning over a fence and children are sitting around a fire. Etching by P.W. Tomkins after H.W. Bunbury, 1791.
  • Indian fortune-teller with client. Gouache drawing.
  • A Turkish oracle; the torture wheel of Pope Pius VI. Engraving.
  • Mary Squires the fortune teller foretells the future to Sir John Hill: she indicates that she has support from the Lord Mayor of London. Etching, 1753.
  • Arabic geomantic signs, wheel of life and death, the zodiac wheel and the Veronica. Engraving.
  • Roman augurs interpreting the flight of birds. Etching by J. Goupy, 1724, after S. Rosa.
  • David Teniers has a gipsy fortune-teller read the palm of his wife. Engraving by L. Surugue, 1750, after D. Teniers the younger.
  • A rosary, a medallion of St Benedict, a charm said to cause loss of eyesight, and hands showing lines and features to be interpreted by palmistry (including lines forecasting violent death); all illustrating 'superstition'. Engraving.
  • A young woman carrying a tray of small pamphlets holds one out for sale. Photogravure by Gebbie & Husson after C. Fould.
  • Mexico: a sheet of an Aztec document showing a serpent with other divinatory figures. Coloured aquatint by D. Klemi-Bonatti, ca. 1820.
  • William Smith. Mezzotint, 17--.
  • A man of occult learning arrives at the house of a cobbler and his wife: the cobbler insults him, the wife defends him. Coloured engraving by L. Truchy after F. Hayman.
  • Salomon de Caus incarcerated in the mental asylum of Bicêtre. Lithograph by Lafosse after J.J. Lecurieux, 1845.