Wellcome uses cookies.

Read our policy
Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
Events
29 results
  • A profile evaluated by Lavater as harsh and displeasing, yet with traces of wit in the eyes. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • A man whose face expresses (according to the study of physiognomy) austerity blended with wit and rhetorical powers. Engraving by Barlow, 19th century.
  • A man whose physiognomy expresses, according to Lavater, openness of mind, taste, a happy memory, and wit. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • A wife, her physiognomy expressing good temper and humour according to Lavater. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Prodexin : good living, a series of drawings by the Cruikshanks.
  • Prodexin : good living, a series of drawings by the Cruikshanks.
  • Prodexin : good living, a series of drawings by the Cruikshanks.
  • Prodexin : good living, a series of drawings by the Cruikshanks.
  • Three anatomical dissections taking place in an attic. Coloured lithograph by T. C. Wilson after a pen and wash drawing by T. Rowlandson.
  • Three anatomical dissections taking place in an attic. Coloured lithograph by T. C. Wilson after a pen and wash drawing by T. Rowlandson.
  • Eating out. No. 3, The cits ordinary at the Gate House Highgate, or every hog to his own apple.
  • Prodexin : good living, a series of drawings by the Cruikshanks.
  • Eating out. No. 3, The cits ordinary at the Gate House Highgate, or every hog to his own apple.
  • Prodexin : good living, a series of drawings by the Cruikshanks.
  • Prodexin : good living, a series of drawings by the Cruikshanks.
  • Prodexin : good living, a series of drawings by the Cruikshanks.
  • Prodexin : good living, a series of drawings by the Cruikshanks.
  • Prodexin : good living, a series of drawings by the Cruikshanks.
  • Prodexin : good living, a series of drawings by the Cruikshanks.
  • Prodexin : good living, a series of drawings by the Cruikshanks.
  • Prodexin : good living, a series of drawings by the Cruikshanks.
  • Prodexin : good living, a series of drawings by the Cruikshanks.
  • Prodexin : good living, a series of drawings by the Cruikshanks.
  • Prodexin : good living, a series of drawings by the Cruikshanks.
  • A physician looks at the coffin of a deceased patient and says "I cured him too". Watercolour, ca. 1752/1755.
  • A disabled soldier has his wooden legs stolen by four Irishmen in a bar. Colour lithograph by H.G. Banks, ca. 1899.
  • Phrenological diagrams of the skull and brain, with three portraits: Laurence Sterne, a mathematician, and Shakespeare; exemplifying the faculties of wit, number and imagination respectively. Engraving by H. Sawyer after W. Byam, 1818.
  • Phrenological diagrams of the skull and brain, with three portraits: Laurence Sterne, a mathematician, and Shakespeare; exemplifying the faculties of wit, number and imagination respectively. Engraving by H. Sawyer after W. Byam, 1818.
  • Deaf actors using sign language perform a play about Don Guzman to an audience in St Saviour's church hall, London. Wood engraving by G. Durand, 1877.