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1 print : collotype ; image 32.3 x 22.8 cm

A skeleton of a child born with two backbones and two heads. Collotype by Römmler & Jonas after a radiograph made for G. Leopold and Th. Leisewitz, 1908.

Adamson Collection

1 painting : purple watercolour ; sheet 53.2 x 42 cm

The outline of two horses with one body. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1973.

Lennep remarks upon the alchemical dictum that "one must multiply the eagle in order to vanquish the lion more easily" (ibid. p. 125) Mercury is the principle of dissolution; the lion represents fixity

Splendor solis

1 painting : watercolour ; image 40.6 x 19.7 cm.

A three-headed eagle in a crowned alchemical flask, representing mercury sublimated three times. Watercolour painting.

The ethnic types depicted are the following: "African", head of a black man with big lips; "Australians", two aboriginal people with pointed heads; "North American Indian", man wearing head-dress; "Mexican", wearing sombrero; "Soudanese", wearing turban
The "living curiosities" depicted are the following: "A living mystery.", a woman without body below the waist; "The stoutest lady in the world", a fat lady; "Snake charmer", sitting cross-legged, holding two snakes; "The tallest & shortest woman in the Universe, (pretty & of good figures)"; "Neither arms nor legs.", a man without a body below the waist and without arms, placed on the seat of an armchair; "The twoheaded marvel.", a woman who appears to have two heads; "The finest head of hair ever seen.", a woman with long blonde hair down to the ground; "The fat boy"; "The tallest & shortest man in the world. These men are the long and the short of it", the tall man lighting a cigarette from the flame at the top of a gas lamp, the short man standing at the foot of the lamppost. In the centre are are a lion-tamer, a conjurer, and a ventriloquist

Racial types and people with physical abnormalities exhibited at S. Watson's American Museum of Living Curiosities. Colour lithograph.

Description of a viewing of conjoined twins Cristina and Rita Parodi, born to Maria-Teresa Parodi in Sardinia in 1829.

Description d'un phénomène extraordinaire, à deux têtes, vivant. / Par le docteur F. Demichelis, professeur de chirurgie et d'anatomie, à l'Université royale de Sassari (en Sardaigne.).

Lennep identifies the beast as Cerberus, while he notes that Hartlaub calls it a lion. The three colours here (white, red and black) are the colours through which the philosopher's stone passes in the process of transmutation

1 painting : watercolour ; image 40.6 x 19.6 cm.

A three headed monster in an alchemical flask, representing the composition of the alchemical philosopher's stone: salt, sulphur, and mercury. Watercolour painting.

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A skeleton of a child born with two backbones and two heads. Collotype by Römmler & Jonas after a radiograph made for G. Leopold and Th. Leisewitz, 1908.

The outline of two horses with one body. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1973.

A three-headed eagle in a crowned alchemical flask, representing mercury sublimated three times. Watercolour painting.

Racial types and people with physical abnormalities exhibited at S. Watson's American Museum of Living Curiosities. Colour lithograph.

Description d'un phénomène extraordinaire, à deux têtes, vivant. / Par le docteur F. Demichelis, professeur de chirurgie et d'anatomie, à l'Université royale de Sassari (en Sardaigne.).

A three headed monster in an alchemical flask, representing the composition of the alchemical philosopher's stone: salt, sulphur, and mercury. Watercolour painting.

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A skeleton of a child born with two backbones and two heads. Collotype by Römmler & Jonas after a radiograph made for G. Leopold and Th. Leisewitz, 1908.

The outline of two horses with one body. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1973.

A three-headed eagle in a crowned alchemical flask, representing mercury sublimated three times. Watercolour painting.

Racial types and people with physical abnormalities exhibited at S. Watson's American Museum of Living Curiosities. Colour lithograph.

Description d'un phénomène extraordinaire, à deux têtes, vivant. / Par le docteur F. Demichelis, professeur de chirurgie et d'anatomie, à l'Université royale de Sassari (en Sardaigne.).

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