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Imagination

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Psychology
Intelligence
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Images from the collections

Images about Imagination

8 images from works
  • 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.
  • The eyes of a man; expressing, according to Lavater, a character upon which "you can easily impose, unless his imagination be heated by his uncommon vivacity". Drawing, c. 1794.
  • The pleasures of imagination. A poem / In three books.
  • A man suffering from depressed spirits ("hypochondria") being tormented by doleful spectres. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson after J. Dunthorne, 1788.
  • A man suffering from depressed spirits ("hypochondria"), being tormented by doleful spectres. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson after J. Dunthorne, 1788.
  • An artist painting a woman with a hand mirror and the devil; representing the faculty of the imagination. Engraving, 16--.
  • 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.
  • The profile of an imaginative man in a state of fear (left), and a woman afraid (right). Drawing, c. 1789.

Works from the collections

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    Dissertatio medica, inauguralis, de imaginatione morborum causa ac remedio : quam ... pro gradu doctoratus ... / eruditorum examini subjicit Oswaldus Hunter ... Ad diem 24 Junii.

    Hunter, Oswald. | Date: 1803
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    Visualised numerals / by Francis Galton.

    Galton, Sir Francis, 1822-1911. | Date: 1880
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    Image and reality : Kekulé, Kopp, and the scientific imagination / Alan J. Rocke.

    Rocke, Alan J., 1948- | Date: 2010
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    The analysis of fantasy : the thematic apperception technique in the study of personality / William E. Henry.

    Henry, William E. (William Earl), 1917- | Date: [1956]
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    La filosofia di Gaston Bachelard tra scienza e immaginazione / Arturo Deregibus.

    Deregibus, Arturo. | Date: [1997], ©1997
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Related topics

Creativity
Psychology
Psychology, Child
Fantasy
Child Development
Thinking
Fantasy
History, 19th Century
United Kingdom
Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical

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