Work consisting of graphic representations, especially of the face, of real persons, usually posed, living or dead. They are pictures whose purpose is the portrayal of an individual or group of individuals, not pictures which merely include people as part of an event or scene. (From Thesaurus for Graphic Materials II, p540, 1995)
    

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Sir Henry Wellcome

"Fig. 1 - Negrito" The phrenological journal, 1870.

Plate XIII. Results of excisions of the head of the humerus. American Civil War (1861-65).

Anton Raphael Mengs, self-portrait

Lawson Tait in 1885, Photographic portrait

Portrait photograph of Charles Darwin

The Accomplisht Cook by Robert May

Henry Wellcome (standing left) with his brother George, and their parents

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Anton Raphael Mengs, self-portrait

Portrait photograph of Charles Darwin

The Accomplisht Cook by Robert May

Plate XIII. Results of excisions of the head of the humerus. American Civil War (1861-65).

Henry Wellcome (standing left) with his brother George, and their parents