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  • A man behind a woman who is combing her hair; representing the sense of sight. Engraving.
  • Some elderly patients wistfully reminisce about their younger days. Coloured lithograph by A. de Valmont.
  • A woman's head, expressive of sublime compassion. Drawing, c. 1791, after Raphael.
  • The new beauty-culture : an absolutely new way of beautifying the complexion... Pond's Extract Soap / Armour & Company.
  • Right profile of a boy exemplifying ancient Greek male beauty. Drawing, c. 1791.
  • A young woman helping another with her toilet while an old woman prays. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/98.
  • A traveller being entranced by a witch disguised as a beautiful woman in the Alps. Engraving by T. Stocks after F. Meadows.
  • A lower class young woman; representing the St Giles's area of London. Stippple engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1783, after J.H. Benwell.
  • A woman lagging a hot-water tank. Colour lithograph.
  • The angel Raphael appears among the animals in the garden of Eden to gaze upon Adam and Eve. Aquatint with etching by R. Pollard, 1792, after C. Metz.
  • A woman looks at herself in her mirror; a man looks through a telescope; representing the sense of sight. Engraving by A. Bosse after himself, ca. 1650.
  • It floats : Swan Soap : train up a child in the way it should go / Lever Brothers Limited.
  • Husbands bringing their ugly wives to a windmill, to be transformed into beautiful ones. Engraving, ca 1650.
  • Three women at a wash-basin, on either side stand attendants. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937.
  • Figuroids : the scientific obesity cure : safely remove all superfluous fat from every part of the body, and quite restore the figure / The Figuroid Company Ltd.
  • Jane Shore (mistress of King Edward IV), Henry Hastings (Dorset landowner and sportsman), Jedediah Buxton (mental calculator), and Mary Davis (with horns). Etching, 1808.
  • A young woman, winner of a beauty contest, wearing a large black hat with a trailing scarf round her throat.
  • Beauty: illustrated chiefly by an analysis and classification of beauty in women / Preceded by a critical view of the general hypotheses respecting beauty, by Hume, Hogarth, Burke, Knight, Alison, etc., and followed by a similar view of the hypotheses of beauty in sculpture and painting by Leonardo da Vinci, Winckelmann, Mengs, Bossi, etc. By Alexander Walker. Illustrated by drawings from life, by Henry Howard.
  • Raphael: portrait. Drawing, c. 1791.
  • A perturbed young woman asleep with a devil sitting on her chest; symbolizing her nightmare. Stipple engraving by J.P. Simon, 1810.
  • Five tombs containing skeletons of historical exemplars of wisdom, war, beauty, strength and riches; an allegory of change, decay and death. Engraving after A.P. van de Venne, ca. 1655.
  • A perturbed young woman asleep with a devil sitting on her chest; symbolizing her nightmare. Stipple engraving by J.P. Simon, 1810.
  • Two women crouching over a wash-basin; a winged human hovers above. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937.
  • Diane de Poitiers, in her bed-chamber in the Château de Chenonceau, having her hair dressed by a female assistant; another woman stands to the left; a small child and a dog are in the foreground. Lithograph by L. Haghe, 1841, after W.J. Müller.
  • Die kosmetische Wirkung der Vibrationsmassage mit dem "Sanofix" : kein Ermüden der Hand... / Electricitätsgesellschaft "Sanitas".
  • Krishna combing Radha's hair with attendant in the background. Chromolithograph.
  • An 'ideal head' shown to have slight idiosyncrasies in physiognomy. Drawing, c. 1789, after Raphael.
  • The painter Zeuxis, preparing to paint a picture for Juno, selects as his model the most beautiful parts of five virgins of Croton. Etching by J. Goupy after F. Solimena.
  • A woman lagging a hot-water tank. Colour lithograph.
  • Two women at their toilet, a satyr looks on. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937.