Wellcome uses cookies.

Read our policy
Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
Events

Active filters:

QuietudeReset filters
11 results
  • 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.
  • Faces expressing the passions and showing the muscles relation to expression, with an explanation of the art of 'pathognomy', the reading of facial expression. Etching, c. 1800.
  • The Virgin Mary telling a young Saint John the Baptist to be quiet as the baby Jesus is sleeping. Engraving by E. Hainzelmann after Annibale Carracci.
  • Boer War: two aristocratic ladies in the grounds of a large house used as a military hospital at Rondebosch, South Africa. Halftone, c. 1900, after Duffus Brothers.
  • Sarawak: a peace-making ceremony between two Kayan tribes. Photograph.
  • Frontispiece to Le Brun's 'Passions' (left) and a face expressing tranquillity (right). Etching by B. Picart, 1698, after C. Le Brun.
  • A woman's face expressing desire (left) and a man's face expressing 'joy with tranquility' (right). Engraving, c. 1760, after C. Le Brun.
  • 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.
  • Three faces: expressing desire (top) and peaceful joy (bottom left), and laughing (bottom right). Engravings after C. Le Brun.
  • Six faces expressing the human passions: (clockwise from top left) attention, admiration with astonishment, veneration, simple bodily pain, joy with tranquility, and admiration. Coloured etching, c. 1800, after C. Le Brun.
  • 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.