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  • An écorché face showing the state of the facial muscles during relaxation. Stipple engraving by H. Singleton (?) after G.T. Stubbs after G. Stubbs, 1815.
  • Judas Iscariot. Drawing, c. 1789, after H. Holbein.
  • Bust of a lean male, looking down to his lower right. Etching by Wenceslaus Hollar after Leonardo da Vinci, 1648.
  • Sixteen portraits of classical poets and thinkers. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Desiderius Erasmus: portrait in profile. Drawing, c. 1795, after H. Holbein.
  • A woman expressing attention, desire and hope. Drawing, c. 1788, after Raphael.
  • Progression of a man through the ages of fifty to a hundred. Engraving, c. 1794.
  • Diagrams illustrating: bandaged legs in splints, bandaged upper bodies and bandaged heads and eyes. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger (?).
  • Head of "a backward boy" divided into four cerebral lobes: profile. Ink drawing with watercolour, c. 1900.
  • A phrenologist and some society people in a parlour. Lithograph by H. Jannin after L.C. Bommier (?).
  • Mercier, an architect. Drawing, c. 1793, after J. Morin.
  • Phrenological head of Lord Ellenborough as Governor General of India 1841-1844. Lithograph, ca. 1844.
  • Muscles of the neck, tongue and jaws. Colour mezzotint by J.F. Gautier d'Agoty after himself, 1745-1746.
  • A young man in caricature, the features of his face bunched up into a small area. Engraving by B. Bossi, 1776, after himself.
  • The infant John the Baptist. Drawing, c. 1791, after Raphael.
  • A male figure and three phrenological heads. Wood engraving.
  • Eight physiognomies. Drawing, c. 1789, after D.N. Chodowiecki and C. Le Brun.
  • Three heads showing phrenological traits associated with insanity: a mentally defective person, a mad woman, and the murderer P.F. Lacenaire. Lithograph by C. Picard, 1842, after J.P. Thenot.
  • Muscles of the right side of the head and neck. Colour mezzotint by J. F. Gautier d'Agoty after himself, 1745-1746.
  • A diagram of a head illustrating a jaw and chin brace. Stipple print by J. Bell.
  • Lucas Vorsterman, the engraver: portrait. Drawing, c. 1791, after A. van Dyck.
  • Statues of an apostle and Christ (?). Drawing, c. 1793.
  • A bust showing a phlegmatic-sanguine temperament. Drawing, c. 1792.
  • An Italian bandit offering a French gentleman the piebald one of three 'hottentot' (steatopygous) women; representing Louis Sambon and Raphael Blanchard at an international medical congress. Halftone after M.S. Orr, 1913.
  • Human physiognomies next to animal physiognomies, showing the relations between certain of the species. Etching, c. 1820, after C. Le Brun.
  • Three vignettes of phrenological heads and two phrenological propensities, amativeness and self love. Wood engraving by Dellagana after G. Cruikshank.
  • David rests his hand on Goliath's severed head. Lithograph by B-R. Julien, 1845, after G. Reni.
  • Muscles of the head and neck, the head raised and the lower jaw removed exposing the teeth and the zygomatic arch. Colour mezzotint by J. F. Gautier d'Agoty after himself, 1745-1746.
  • In a room filled with skulls of the famous, the phrenologist Gall examines William Pitt the Younger and Gustavus IV, the King of Sweden, both currently plagued by Napoleon. Coloured etching, 1806.
  • Coombe's synopsis of phrenology : for the use of practical phrenologists.