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  • Face and neck of a girl with cutaneous horn
  • A man with a cutaneous horn-like growth on the scalp. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, ca. 1837.
  • François Trouille, a man with a horn growing from his head. Etching, 1814.
  • François Trouille, a man with a horn growing from his head. Reproduction of stipple engraving.
  • Mary Davis, a woman with horns. Line engraving.
  • Mary Davis, a woman with horns. Wood engraving.
  • Mary Davis, a woman with horns, aged 74. Engraving, 1792.
  • Ann Davis, a woman with smallpox and horns growing out of her head. Stipple engraving by T. Woolnoth, 1806.
  • Elizabeth French, a woman with horns. Pen drawing.
  • Elizabeth French, a woman with horns. Aquatint.
  • [Leaflet about Elizabeth French, "The horned woman", born at Tenterden in Kent giving a brief hsitpory from Sloane MS. 5246; page 101 with a mounted aquatint engraving. She had a horn-like growth at the back of her head ten inches long and several smaller stumps. The horn was not attached to her skull and caused pain if pressure was applied. She was hired by a Mr Fauks for a number of years until she broke her horn, which was bought by Sir Hans Sloane].
  • Jane Shore (mistress of King Edward IV), Henry Hastings (Dorset landowner and sportsman), Jedediah Buxton (mental calculator), and Mary Davis (with horns). Etching, 1808.