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  • Mary Squires, a gypsy renowned for her ugliness. Engraving.
  • Two distorted faces with protruding tongues, expressing ugly characters according to the physiognomist Lavater. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Husbands bringing their ugly wives to a windmill, to be transformed into beautiful ones. Engraving, ca 1650.
  • Husbands bringing their ugly wives to a windmill, to be transformed into beautiful ones. Engraving, ca 1650.
  • A discussion group attended by glum, ugly, and bored people. Stipple engraving after H.W. Bunbury, 1782.
  • A father looks over his vaccinated, ugly child and is glad that his face will be spared the blemishes of smallpox. Lithograph by H. Daumier, 1846.
  • Two girls commenting on the fact that the new doctor's children are ugly as they pass them in the woods - misinterpreting the theory of natural selection. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier, 1892.
  • Three grotesque old men with missing teeth pointing and grimacing at each other. Coloured stipple engraving, 1810, after J. Collier.
  • Three grotesque old men with missing teeth grimacing and pointing at each other. Engraving by T. Sandars after J. Collier, 1773.
  • An old woman with a crumpled face, wearing elaborate costume; a physiognomic caricature. Engraving by B. Bossi, 1776, after himself.
  • An attractive woman courting a strange looking man; suggesting that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Coloured lithograph, 1833.
  • A carbuncled woman retiring to bed; creating a satirical figure of female vanity. Coloured wood engraving.
  • A profile evaluated by Lavater as harsh and displeasing, yet with traces of wit in the eyes. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Twelve human profiles in outline, sectioned to show their disproportion. Drawing, c. 1794, after A. Dürer.
  • A man whose face expresses (according to the study of physiognomy) austerity blended with wit and rhetorical powers. Engraving by Barlow, 19th century.
  • A head in profile to left. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1970.
  • A head in profile to left. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1970.
  • Chinese men and women join British army staff in an evening feast. Lithograph, ca. 1840/1850.
  • The word 'AIDS' with a message about the need to pratice safer sex; an advertisement issued by the Family Planning Association of India. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • A vain woman (Lady Pentweazle) sits to a portrait-painter (Carmine) while a servant holds her lapdog. Mezzotint by D. Lucas, 1832, after R. Smirke.
  • A vain woman (Lady Pentweazle) sits to a portrait-painter (Carmine) while a servant holds her lapdog. Mezzotint by D. Lucas, 1832, after R. Smirke.
  • A sinful courtier in Whitehall is compared to a toad and found to be the more loathsome of the two. Engraving, 16--.
  • Kumasi, Ghana: a mother holding a child with unshaved hair; a group stands in the background. Photograph, 1920/1940 (?).
  • A woman's smiling face amidst other images bearing warnings about AIDS including 'One partner do not mean your safe from AIDS'; one of 4 drawings by students of C. C. Sweeting Senior High School, Nassau, Bahamas for World AIDS Day, November 1993. Photocopy reproduced from a drawing by Allan P. Wallau, 1993.
  • A dancing demonstration in a school, attended by the pupils' families and friends. Etching by George Cruikshank.
  • Stages in the career of an Anglican cleric. Coloured etching by F.G. Byron, 1791, after G.M. Woodward.
  • Stages in the career of an Anglican cleric. Coloured etching by F.G. Byron, 1791, after G.M. Woodward.
  • Different species of cimex, including the bedbug (fig. 1). Coloured etching by J. Pass, 1801.