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Jane Shore (mistress of King Edward IV), Henry Hastings (Dorset landowner and sportsman), Jedediah Buxton (mental calculator), and Mary Davis (with horns). Etching, 1808.

François Trouille, a man with a horn growing from his head. Etching, 1814.

Elizabeth French, a woman with horns. Pen drawing.

A man with a cutaneous horn-like growth on the scalp. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, ca. 1837.

Mary Davis, a woman with horns. Line engraving.

Elizabeth French, a woman with horns. Aquatint.

Mary Davis, a woman with horns. Wood engraving.

Mary Davis, a woman with horns, aged 74. Engraving, 1792.

François Trouille, a man with a horn growing from his head. Reproduction of stipple engraving.

[Leaflet about Elizabeth French, "The horned woman", born at Tenterden in Kent giving a brief hsitpory from Sloane MS. 5246; page 101 with a mounted aquatint engraving. She had a horn-like growth at the back of her head ten inches long and several smaller stumps. The horn was not attached to her skull and caused pain if pressure was applied. She was hired by a Mr Fauks for a number of years until she broke her horn, which was bought by Sir Hans Sloane].

Ann Davis, a woman with smallpox and horns growing out of her head. Stipple engraving by T. Woolnoth, 1806.

Bemerkungen über einen monstreusen Canarien-Vogel : aus dessen Unterkiefer ein lang gewundenes Horn gewachsen ; an den Herrn Grafen von Büffon ... mit einer ausgemahlten Kupfertafel.

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Horns, Cutaneous

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Jane Shore (mistress of King Edward IV), Henry Hastings (Dorset landowner and sportsman), Jedediah Buxton (mental calculator), and Mary Davis (with horns). Etching, 1808.

Bemerkungen über einen monstreusen Canarien-Vogel : aus dessen Unterkiefer ein lang gewundenes Horn gewachsen ; an den Herrn Grafen von Büffon ... mit einer ausgemahlten Kupfertafel.

Mary Davis, a woman with horns, aged 74. Engraving, 1792.

A man with a cutaneous horn-like growth on the scalp. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, ca. 1837.

Elizabeth French, a woman with horns. Pen drawing.

Horns, Cutaneous

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Images about Horns, Cutaneous

Works from the collections

Jane Shore (mistress of King Edward IV), Henry Hastings (Dorset landowner and sportsman), Jedediah Buxton (mental calculator), and Mary Davis (with horns). Etching, 1808.

Bemerkungen über einen monstreusen Canarien-Vogel : aus dessen Unterkiefer ein lang gewundenes Horn gewachsen ; an den Herrn Grafen von Büffon ... mit einer ausgemahlten Kupfertafel.

Mary Davis, a woman with horns, aged 74. Engraving, 1792.

A man with a cutaneous horn-like growth on the scalp. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, ca. 1837.

Elizabeth French, a woman with horns. Pen drawing.

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