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  • Twelve human profiles in outline, sectioned to show their disproportion. Drawing, c. 1794, after A. Dürer.
  • Mary Squires, a gypsy renowned for her ugliness. Engraving.
  • Two girls commenting on the fact that the new doctor's children are ugly as they pass them in the woods - misinterpreting the theory of natural selection. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier, 1892.
  • An attractive woman courting a strange looking man; suggesting that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Coloured lithograph, 1833.
  • A carbuncled woman retiring to bed; creating a satirical figure of female vanity. Coloured wood engraving.
  • An old woman with a crumpled face, wearing elaborate costume; a physiognomic caricature. Engraving by B. Bossi, 1776, after himself.
  • A man whose face expresses (according to the study of physiognomy) austerity blended with wit and rhetorical powers. Engraving by Barlow, 19th century.
  • A profile evaluated by Lavater as harsh and displeasing, yet with traces of wit in the eyes. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Three grotesque old men with missing teeth grimacing and pointing at each other. Engraving by T. Sandars after J. Collier, 1773.
  • Two distorted faces with protruding tongues, expressing ugly characters according to the physiognomist Lavater. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Three grotesque old men with missing teeth pointing and grimacing at each other. Coloured stipple engraving, 1810, after J. Collier.