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Phrenological diagrams of the skull and brain, with three portraits: Laurence Sterne, a mathematician, and Shakespeare; exemplifying the faculties of wit, number and imagination respectively. Engraving by H. Sawyer after W. Byam, 1818.

Cupid presides over a group of naked women who sit separated from groups of yearning men; symbolising the passion of love. Etching by J. Audran after C. Gillot.

Human skull: frontal view. Lithograph, c. 1835.

Joseph Millot Severn, a British phrenologist, examining a boy. Colour process print, c. 1929.

An opinionated child ignores his parents; representing the faculty of obstinacy in phrenology. Steel engraving, 1847, after H. Bruyères.

Child's head with large temporal lobes and depressed frontal lobe. Drawing, c. 1900.

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 (?).

A male figure and three phrenological heads. Wood engraving.

A head divided in two, the left half describing activities numbered 1 to 42. Lithograph by Frank Ellis, 1901.

Two sections of the brain, divided into different lobes and faculties, according to Hollander's system of phrenology. Pen drawing, c. 1902.

Phrenological chart with portraits of historical figures and illustrations of skulls exhibiting racial characteristics. Lithograph by G. E. Madeley, authored by C. Donovan, c. 1850.

Handbook of psychology. Vol. 1, History of psychology / Donald K. Freedheim, volume editor ; Irving B. Weiner, editor-in-chief.

German psychology of to-day : the empirical school / by Th. Ribot ; tr. from the 2d French ed. by James Mark Baldwin ; with a preface by James McCosh.

William James, his marginalia, personality and contribution / by A. A. Roback.

Three perspectives of a skull sectioned and labelled according to an unorthodox system of phrenology. Pen drawing, 18--.

Psychologia w szkole lwowsko-warszawskiej / Twardowski [and others] ; wybór i opracowanie Teresa Rzepa.

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Psychology - History

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Images about Psychology - History

Works from the collections

Handbook of psychology. Vol. 1, History of psychology / Donald K. Freedheim, volume editor ; Irving B. Weiner, editor-in-chief.

German psychology of to-day : the empirical school / by Th. Ribot ; tr. from the 2d French ed. by James Mark Baldwin ; with a preface by James McCosh.

William James, his marginalia, personality and contribution / by A. A. Roback.

Three perspectives of a skull sectioned and labelled according to an unorthodox system of phrenology. Pen drawing, 18--.

Psychologia w szkole lwowsko-warszawskiej / Twardowski [and others] ; wybór i opracowanie Teresa Rzepa.

Psychology - History

Images from the collections

Images about Psychology - History

Works from the collections

Handbook of psychology. Vol. 1, History of psychology / Donald K. Freedheim, volume editor ; Irving B. Weiner, editor-in-chief.

German psychology of to-day : the empirical school / by Th. Ribot ; tr. from the 2d French ed. by James Mark Baldwin ; with a preface by James McCosh.

William James, his marginalia, personality and contribution / by A. A. Roback.

Three perspectives of a skull sectioned and labelled according to an unorthodox system of phrenology. Pen drawing, 18--.

Psychologia w szkole lwowsko-warszawskiej / Twardowski [and others] ; wybór i opracowanie Teresa Rzepa.

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