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  • An opinionated child ignores his parents; representing the faculty of obstinacy in phrenology. Steel engraving, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • The Virgin Mary prays to the infant Jesus, who is being carried by four kneeling angels; they all stand in a circle around the sun drawn on the ground. Aquatint with etching by C.M. Metz after D. Ghirlandaio.
  • The birth of Christ; female angels swoon through the air; Joseph looks on. Aquatint by T. Piroli, 1796, after W. Y. Ottley.
  • A man sitting erect on a chair; representing pride as a type of the 'sentiment' of self esteem, a phrenological 'faculty'. Steel engraving by C. Devrits, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • How accidents happen : when lifting... when carrying... and remember / prepared for the Ministry of Labour and National Service by the Central Office of Information.
  • A young man posing in the street with hat and cane: three views. Stipple engraving after H.W. Bunbury.
  • An Italian brigand attacking a gentleman on a road; exhibiting the phrenological 'propensity' of 'destructiveness'. Steel engraving by S. Wolff, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • Guidelines to correct back posture in Djibouti. Colour lithograph, ca. 2000.
  • Men of opposing social classes in a game of boules; illustrating the faculty of weight and resistance in phrenology. Steel engraving by A. Portier, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • Legs in various attitudes. Engraving after C. Le Brun.
  • The devil examining the head of a boy; three other boys lurk under the devil's wings; frontispiece to a manual on phrenology. Steel engraving by J.D. Nargeot, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • Two men exhibiting postures which express their character: on the left a man of 'brutal sensibility', on the right, a miser. Drawing by D.N. Chodowiecki, c. 1789.
  • A man is carrying a sphere on his shoulders; showing the bones of the right leg and the right arm. Steel engraving.
  • A woman in evening dress, attended by a man; the woman representing the 'sentiment' of self esteem, a 'faculty' according to phrenology. Steel engraving by J-I-L. Desjardins, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • A man challenges another; exhibiting boldness, classed phrenologically under the 'propensity' of combativeness. Steel engraving by Contenau, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • A woman kneeling, holding a vase. Drawing, c. 1793.
  • A man with a large, protruding head walking with a heavy gait; illustrating the reflective faculty in phrenology. Steel engraving by A. Devrits, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • Bazile and Bartolo, characters from a story by Beaumarchais, representing the phrenological 'propensity' of secretiveness. Steel engraving by Geoffroy, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • An introverted and an extroverted man; exhibiting excessive and lacking propensities connected with the faculty of causality (reflective thought) in phrenology. Steel engraving by E. Monnin, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • Bartholomew Fair, site of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, pictured in 1721. Aquatint with etching after T. Loggon, c. 1824 (?).
  • An artist measures a model of the human body from a distance with one eye shut; representing the faculty of perception in extended space in phrenological classification. Steel engraving by J-I-L. Desjardins, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • Gentlemen being instructed in dancing and posture. Mezzotint by B. Clowes after J. Collet, ca. 1768.
  • A man walking with the posture of a drunkard. Drawing with wash, c. 1789.
  • (Above) A man receiving a command from another, showing postures of timidity and arrogance; (below) a prisoner sits manacled while one gentleman prays and another waits with a sword, showing postures of prayer, desire for liberty, and fatuity. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1854.
  • The birth of Christ; in the background, shepherds are hailed by an angel. Engraving.
  • A crowd watches as two men gamble; representing the phrenological faculty of acquisitiveness. Steel engraving by L.A. Portier, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • Bartholomew Fair, site of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, pictured in 1721. Aquatint with etching after T. Loggon, c. 1824 (?).
  • The Annunciation to the Virgin. Engraving by C. Cort after Titian.