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  • William Davies and his wife, in profile. Silhouettes, ca. 1800(?).
  • Plate illustrating the process of making silhouettes.
  • The temptation of Saint Antony. Lithograph silhouettes.
  • Silhouettes of a family of five: family planning in Sudan. Colour lithograph by Sudan Family Planning Association, ca. 2000.
  • Heads of eleven members of the Lister family. Photographs of silhouettes.
  • Heads of eleven members of the Lister family. Photographs of silhouettes.
  • Heads of eleven members of the Lister family. Photographs of silhouettes.
  • William Burke (centre), Dr Alexander Monro III (top left), William Robertson (top right), Thomas Beveridge (lower left), Dr Robert Knox (lower right) Silhouettes, c. 1830.
  • Coloured human silhouettes on a black ground. Colour lithograph after J. Stiegele, ca. 1995.
  • Silhouettes of people with hearts walking representing an advertisement for the AIDS Walk for Life in Edmonton Canada, Sunday Oct 4 1992. Colour lithograph after Keith Haring.
  • Silhouettes of people with hearts walking representing an advertisement for the AIDS Walk for Life in Edmonton Canada, Sunday Oct 4 1992. Colour lithograph after Keith Haring.
  • Silhouettes of figures with hearts walking representing an advertisement for the AIDS Walk for Life at Rundle Park Family Recreation Centre, Edmonton Canada, 3 Oct. 1993. Colour lithograph.
  • Seven silhouettes representing an infected person with AIDS and her/his friends and family around. Lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A life in 24 silhouettes of Jan Kwak, a successful quack-doctor. Process print after N. Bodenheim, c. 1900.
  • Two trees bearing silhouettes of families: population increase in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Nigerian Educational Research & Development Council (NERDC), ca. 1990.
  • Three silhouettes of the same naked couple embracing representing a safe-sex advertisement by the AIDS Control Project in Hyderabad. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • The black silhouettes of a couple in 3 different sexual positions representing an advertisement for safe sex to prevent AIDS by Spitnac, Societal Projects Information Training Networking and Consultancy Services. Colour lithograph, 1997?.
  • Pink, orange, red and figure silhouettes in decreasing size against a cityscape of Kuwait City above representing an advertisement for World AIDS Day 1 December 1994 by the Kuwait Ministry of Health. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • Prevention of venereal diseases: the black silhouettes of a woman and a man approach each other, she from an orange ground, he standing on mauve letters VD on a red ground. Colour lithograph, ca. 1962.
  • The yellow and green silhouettes of abstract figures with the statement 'Equal rights shared responsibility' representing an advertisement for World AIDS Day on 1st December 1995 by the Folkhälsoinstitutet [National Public Health Institute]. Colour lithograph, 1995.
  • The coloured silhouettes of a girl holding a kite bearing the flag of Venezuela, a man and woman, a dog and a dove representing an AIDS prevention advertisement for families. Colour lithograph by Marco Caamaño, ca. 1995.
  • Gay male couples coupling with condom silhouettes along the bottom; advertisement for peace, love and safer sex by AIDES with the help of l'Agence Française de lutte contre le SIDA. Colour lithograph by Pierre-Yves Perez, 1994.
  • The black silhouettes of gay male and female couples engaged in different sexual positions representing an advertisement for safe sex to prevent AIDS and HIV by Spitnac, Societal Projects Information Training Networking and Consultancy Services. Colour lithograph, 1997?.
  • Four faces: a European, a Mongolian, an Ethiopian, and a profile of Samuel Johnson; three frontal silhouettes; three skulls of the same races seen from above (in the order European, Ethiopian and Mongolian). Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1824.
  • The word 'AIDS' in Hindi across the heads of 2 black silhouettes of a man and woman with a smaller image of a condom being removed from its packet; a safe sex and AIDS prevention advertisement in Marathi. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A black 'X' in front of the red silhouettes of a woman between 2 men representing a safe sex and AIDS prevention advertisement for those with multiple partners; by the AIDS Control Project, Government of Andhra Pradesh in Hyderabad. Colour lithograph, January 1995.
  • The word 'AIDS' in Marathi across the heads of 2 black silhouettes of a man and woman against a blue background with further illustrations below ways in which AIDS is not transmitted; a safe sex and AIDS prevention advertisement in Marathi. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • The black silhouettes of a man and woman sitting talking at a table attended by a waiter and a musician either side; an advertisement for the Stop AIDS Campaign as part of World AIDS Day on 1st December in Japan. Colour lithograph, ca. 1990.
  • The merging silhouettes of a reclining man and a woman with her arms raised and another woman sitting next to them against the words 'SIDA'; a warning about the dangers of unsafe sex with multiple partners and AIDS. Colour lithograph by Thkuy Liên, ca. 1995.
  • The word 'AIDS' in Marathi across the heads of 2 black silhouettes of a man and woman against an orange background with further illustrations below showing the dangers of multiple partners and contracting AIDS; a safe sex and AIDS prevention advertisement in Marathi. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.