Nine mouths. Drawing, c. 1793.

Designs showing the lower half of the face in various physiognomies and actions. Engraving after C. Le Brun.

Christ heals the dumb and blind demoniac. Etching.

Twelve mouths. Drawing, c. 1793.

Three mouths with variously projecting lips. Drawing, c. 1793.

Yasoda glimpses the whole universe inside Krishna's mouth. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.

Two open mouths bearing tongues curving up in a phallic way and joining in the middle with the message in German 'kissing does not kill'; a safe sex advertisement by the Real AIDS Grazer Kunst Verein. Colour lithograph by Matthias Herrmann, 1993.

A crane inserts its beak into the mouth of a wolf; illustrating Aesop's fable. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.

Seven mouths. Drawing, c. 1793.

The mechanical treatment of deformities of the mouth : congenital and accidental / by Robert Ramsay and James Oakley Coles.

vi, 6, ii, 6 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of engr. plates : illustrations ; (folio)

Icones organorum humanorum gustus et vocis / Samuelis Thomae Soemmerring.

A man whose portrait is analysed by Lavater for its temperament. Drawing, c. 1793.

Lectures on the physical examination of the mouth and throat with an appendix of cases / by G.V. Poore.

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Mouth

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The mechanical treatment of deformities of the mouth : congenital and accidental / by Robert Ramsay and James Oakley Coles.

Icones organorum humanorum gustus et vocis / Samuelis Thomae Soemmerring.

Seven mouths. Drawing, c. 1793.

A man whose portrait is analysed by Lavater for its temperament. Drawing, c. 1793.

Lectures on the physical examination of the mouth and throat with an appendix of cases / by G.V. Poore.

Mouth

Images from the collections

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The mechanical treatment of deformities of the mouth : congenital and accidental / by Robert Ramsay and James Oakley Coles.

Icones organorum humanorum gustus et vocis / Samuelis Thomae Soemmerring.

Seven mouths. Drawing, c. 1793.

A man whose portrait is analysed by Lavater for its temperament. Drawing, c. 1793.

Lectures on the physical examination of the mouth and throat with an appendix of cases / by G.V. Poore.

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