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  • Thai Astronomical manuscripts on fortune telling
  • Tibetan fortune telling card. Watercolour, Tibet.
  • Tibetan fortune telling card. Watercolour, Tibet.
  • Tibetan fortune telling card. Watercolour, Tibet.
  • Tibetan fortune telling card. Watercolour, Tibet.
  • Tibetan fortune telling card. Watercolour, Tibet.
  • Tibetan fortune telling card. Watercolour, Tibet.
  • Tibetan fortune telling card. Watercolour, Tibet.
  • Tibetan fortune telling card. Watercolour, Tibet.
  • Tibetan fortune telling card. Watercolour, Tibet.
  • Tibetan fortune telling card. Watercolour, Tibet.
  • Tibetan fortune telling card. Watercolour, Tibet.
  • Tibetan fortune telling card. Watercolour, Tibet.
  • Tibetan guide to fortune telling cards. Watercolour, Tibet.
  • Painted tablet for fortune telling, inscribed with the names of different angels. Gouache painting by a Persian artist.
  • A woman with her attendant visiting a fortune-teller. Etching.
  • Two women consulting a fortune-teller. Engraving by J. Romney after T. Stothard.
  • An astrologer telling a lady's fortune. Lithograph by J. Prat after C.C. Renoux.
  • A "spae wife" (fortune-teller). Engraving by J.A. Wright after T. Stothard.
  • A fortune-teller performing among a group of women. Wood engraving after Nicolas Gysis.
  • A young woman of humble origins, surrounded by children, is being told by a fortune teller that she will have a happy marriage. Lithograph by C. Constans after L. Boilly, 1824.
  • A man on horseback consulting a fortune-teller or gipsy. Engraving.
  • A woman telling a man's fortune. Watercolour by A. E. Chalon.
  • 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.
  • A fortune-teller reading a gentleman's palm. Engraving by B. Audran after Michelangelo Merisi, il Caravaggio, 1729.
  • A fortune-teller is reading the palm of a woman with little girl on her lap. Engraving by J.K. Sherwin after J. Reynolds, 1786.
  • Two women having their palms read by fortune-teller, a man signalling from behind a tree. Etching.
  • A woman telling a man's fortune. Watercolour by A. E. Chalon.
  • A young couple visit a fortune teller to have their future predicted. Engraving by Charles Rolls after Alfred Johannot.