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  • Mesmeric therapy. Oil painting by a French (?) painter, 1778/1784.
  • Mesmeric therapy. Oil painting by a French (?) painter, 1778/1784.
  • Mesmeric therapy. Oil painting by a French (?) painter, 1778/1784.
  • Mesmeric therapy. Oil painting by a French (?) painter, 1778/1784.
  • Mesmeric therapy. Oil painting by a French (?) painter, 1778/1784.
  • Autolycus, a seller of trinkets, reciting a list of his wares to women and a shepherd who watch and point to them. Engraving by Lumb Stocks after C.R. Leslie.
  • Two naked Sicilian boys, in a rocky setting outdoors. Photograph by W. von Gloeden, 1900.
  • "Sisters 'B'" in drag. Photographic postcard, 194-.
  • "Sisters 'B'" in drag. Photographic postcard, 194-.
  • A pedlar of jewelry reads from a sheet, ladies inspect his wares, and a shepherd looks delighted. Engraving by S. Davenport after J. Holmes after C.R. Leslie.
  • A young man, J. Kay, afflicted with a disease which has eaten away part of his face. Oil painting, ca. 1820.
  • A young man, J. Kay, afflicted with a disease which has eaten away part of his face. Oil painting, ca. 1820.
  • A young man, J. Kay, afflicted with a disease which has eaten away part of his face. Oil painting, ca. 1820.
  • A young man, J. Kay, afflicted with a disease which has eaten away part of his face. Oil painting, ca. 1820.
  • A young man, J. Kay, afflicted with a disease which has eaten away part of his face. Oil painting, ca. 1820.
  • Wigs classified into five different orders in a parody of the orders of ancient Greek and Roman architecture. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1761.
  • The muscles of the left leg, seen from the front, and the bones and muscles of the right leg seen in right profile, and between them, a patella. Drawing by Michelangelo Buonarroti, ca. 1515-1520.
  • The muscles of the left leg, seen from the front, and the bones and muscles of the right leg seen in right profile, and between them, a patella. Drawing by Michelangelo Buonarroti, ca. 1515-1520.
  • The muscles of the left leg, seen from the front, and the bones and muscles of the right leg seen in right profile, and between them, a patella. Drawing by Michelangelo Buonarroti, ca. 1515-1520.
  • The muscles of the left leg, seen from the front, and the bones and muscles of the right leg seen in right profile, and between them, a patella. Drawing by Michelangelo Buonarroti, ca. 1515-1520.
  • May Prinsep as Christabel. Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1866.
  • May Prinsep as Christabel. Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1866.
  • Edward Jenner vaccinating patients in the Smallpox and Inoculation Hospital at St. Pancras: the patients develop features of cows. Watercolour after J. Gillray, 1802.
  • John Montagu, 5th Earl of Sandwich, is following a young woman who is pushing a barrow of carrots through the West End of London. Process print after J. Gillray.
  • A triumphant American slave woman representing quassia (ingredient in acoholic drinks) is carried aloft by two brewers; representing the outcry against a tax on private brewing (?). Etching by J. Gillray, 1806.
  • Analysis of beauty. Plate I.
  • Analysis of beauty. Plate I.
  • King Charles I. Engraving by B. Audran the elder, ca. 1697, after A. Van Dyck.
  • Two Oxford dons manhandling a woman representing Religion, trying to pull her towards or away from the requirement that Oxford University should have to subscribe to the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England. Etching by Athanasius Credo, 1773.
  • Le chirurgie françoise recueillie des antiens médecins et chirurgiens. Avec plusieurs figures des instrumens necesseres pour l'opération manuelle / Par Iacques Guillemeau.