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  • Captain Costentenus, a man with many tattooes on his body. Colour lithograph.
  • A tattoo on a piece of human skin showing a small human figure
  • A naked lady covered in floral tattoos standing in an open landscape. Etching.
  • Captain Costentenus, a man with tattooes all over his body. Colour line block.
  • Sierra Leone: a tattooed man of the Kissi people collecting money. Photograph, 19--.
  • A tattoo on a piece of human skin showing a nude female called Flora
  • A tattoo on a piece of human skin showing a flower and some initials
  • Myanmar (Burma): a young man with elaborate tattoos on his waist and thighs. Photograph.
  • Tattoos on a piece of human skin showing a flower and a selection of people
  • A tattoo in the form of writing on a piece of human skin, 'Enfant du Malheus'
  • Assam: a Chang Naga man with a head-hunter's tattoo. Photograph by Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf.
  • Assam: a Konyak Naga boy with a head-hunter's tattoo. Photograph by Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf.
  • Two tattoos on a piece of human skin showing a seated nude female and a standing male
  • An actor as ruffian Tsuribune no Sabu, full face, revealing his tattoos. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1859.
  • A tattoo on a piece of human skin showng a Greek style bust of an Emperor and some writing
  • Actor Kataoka Nizaemon as the popular hero Umeno Ichirōbei, revealing his tattooed shoulder. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1859.
  • A tattoo on a piece of human skin showing a lady, possibly a lover, surrounded by a garland of flowers
  • New Guinea: five tattooed girls of the Koita people, Waima village. Photograph, 19--, after a photograph by H.M. Dauncey.
  • A selection of tattoos on a piece of human skin showing a nude female, a pot of flowers and a gentlemen
  • [Undated handbill (December 1881) for the Royal Aquarium advertising Farini's (William Hunt) wonder of wonders, the tattooed Captain Georges Costentenus and the Leopard Boy].
  • [Undated handbill (December 1881) for the Royal Aquarium advertising Farini's (William Hunt) wonder of wonders, the tattooed Captain Georges Costentenus and the Leopard Boy].
  • A man's buttock with an eagle tattoo above a sticker bearing the logo of The Hot Rubber Company; advertisement for safe sex. Lithograph, 199-.
  • Actor Ichikawa Kodanji seated on bedding revealing a tattoo of a skull amid grasses on his left arm. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1861.
  • A tattoo on a piece of human skin showing a heart with an arrow through it and the date of the 19th May 91
  • A Maori man with tattoos on his face, encountered by Captain Cook on his second voyage, 1772-1775. Engraving by Michel, 1777, after W. Hodges.
  • A man with a tattoo leans over between the legs of a woman; an advert for safe sex by the Terrence Higgins Trust. Colour lithograph.
  • A man with a tattoo leans over between the legs of a woman; an advert for safe sex by the Terrence Higgins Trust. Colour lithograph.
  • Everyday life at Greenwich Hospital: left, Pensioners filing into the entrance to the west Dining Hall, right, beating the tattoo at sunset. Wood engravings by M. Jackson, 1865.
  • Portrait within a round mirror depicting actor Ichikawa Ichizō III as Sankichi, a popular hero with bared arm and shoulder displaying a dragon tattoo. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1859.
  • Ma-hos-kah (White Cloud), a chief of the Iowa tribe, with facial tattooes and a bear's claw necklace. Coloured lithograph by Lehman & Duval after C. B. King, 1837.