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Concept

Dicephalism

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  • A three-headed eagle in a crowned alchemical flask, representing mercury sublimated three times. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.
  • A three headed monster in an alchemical flask, representing the composition of the alchemical philosopher's stone: salt, sulphur, and mercury. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.
  • A skeleton of a child born with two backbones and two heads. Collotype by Römmler & Jonas after a radiograph made for G. Leopold and Th. Leisewitz, 1908.
  • A three-headed eagle in a crowned alchemical flask, representing mercury sublimated three times. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.
  • Racial types and people with physical abnormalities exhibited at S. Watson's American Museum of Living Curiosities. Colour lithograph.
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    A skeleton of a child born with two backbones and two heads. Collotype by Römmler & Jonas after a radiograph made for G. Leopold and Th. Leisewitz, 1908.

    Leopold, G. (Gerhard), 1846-1911. | Date: 1908 | Reference: 17138i
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    A three-headed eagle in a crowned alchemical flask, representing mercury sublimated three times. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.

    Ibbs, Edith A. | Date: 1900-1909 | Reference: 38823i
    Part of: Splendor solis
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    Racial types and people with physical abnormalities exhibited at S. Watson's American Museum of Living Curiosities. Colour lithograph.

    | Date: [1885?]) | Reference: 38989i
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    Description d'un phénomène extraordinaire, à deux têtes, vivant. / Par le docteur F. Demichelis, professeur de chirurgie et d'anatomie, à l'Université royale de Sassari (en Sardaigne.).

    Demichelis, F., active 1829. | Date: [1829]
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    A three headed monster in an alchemical flask, representing the composition of the alchemical philosopher's stone: salt, sulphur, and mercury. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.

    Ibbs, Edith A. | Date: 1900-1909 | Reference: 38824i
    Part of: Splendor solis
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