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  • Nutritive value of milk / B. Leggett.
  • The story of Cupid and Psyche: inside the palace, Psyche, shown five times, is undressed, bathed, anointed, dried and laid to bed by invisible nymphs. Engraving by Agostino Veneziano, 15--, after M. Coxie, 153-.
  • A young woman helping another with her toilet while an old woman prays. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/98.
  • Pears' soap : matchless for the complexion / Pears.
  • Mary Ray.
  • Abdeker, ou, L'art de conserver la beauté / [Anon].
  • Beauty: illustrated chiefly by an analysis and classification of beauty in women / Preceded by a critical view of the general hypotheses respecting beauty, by Hume, Hogarth, Burke, Knight, Alison, etc., and followed by a similar view of the hypotheses of beauty in sculpture and painting by Leonardo da Vinci, Winckelmann, Mengs, Bossi, etc. By Alexander Walker. Illustrated by drawings from life, by Henry Howard.
  • An 'ideal head' shown to have slight idiosyncrasies in physiognomy. Drawing, c. 1789, after Raphael.
  • Oatine : the food for the complexion / The Oatine Company.
  • An emaciated old man is transformed by four beauticians. Coloured lithograph by Ch.-J. Fuhr after Ch. Bargue, 1852.
  • Venus at her toilet, assisted by the three Graces; she sits on the lap of one of them, another combs her hair, and two cupids hold a mirror in which she admires her own beauty. Engraving by M. Dorigny, 1651, after S. Vouet.
  • A father looks over his vaccinated, ugly child and is glad that his face will be spared the blemishes of smallpox. Lithograph by H. Daumier, 1846.
  • Apsara with pet deer. Watercolour drawing.
  • Diane de Poitiers, in her bed-chamber in the Château de Chenonceau, having her hair dressed by a female assistant; another woman stands to the left; a small child and a dog are in the foreground. Lithograph by L. Haghe, 1841, after W.J. Müller.
  • Two women crouching over a wash-basin; a winged human hovers above. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937.
  • Beauty: illustrated chiefly by an analysis and classification of beauty in women / Preceded by a critical view of the general hypotheses respecting beauty, by Hume, Hogarth, Burke, Knight, Alison, etc., and followed by a similar view of the hypotheses of beauty in sculpture and painting by Leonardo da Vinci, Winckelmann, Mengs, Bossi, etc. By Alexander Walker. Illustrated by drawings from life, by Henry Howard.
  • Fallen angels with animalized characteristics tumble from heaven under the sword of Michael. Engraving by R. Sadeler, 1583, after M. de Vos.
  • Abdeker, ou, L'art de conserver la beauté / [Anon].
  • The painter Zeuxis selecting the best features of five different women for his painting of Juno. Stipple engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1785, after A. Kauffman.
  • The toilet of Psyche or Venus. Colour stipple engraving by W.W. Ryland, 1767, after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.
  • An HIV positive woman holding one hand up to her neck as she looks away beside figures cut out of meat; bearing the warning 'Sondermüll-Mensch' (human hazardous waste); advertising an exhibition about the Upper Austrian AIDS-Hilfe. Colour lithograph by Mares Andreas, 1995.
  • A lady's toilet. Drawing by Jeanne-Françoise Ridderbosch.
  • A man commenting on the beauty of women at a ball, his friend (a dentist) implies that the perfection of their smiles is due to him. Wood engraving after C. Keene, c.1882.
  • An 'ideal head' shown to have slight idiosyncrasies in physiognomy. Drawing, c. 1789, after Raphael.
  • Padmini, the Lotus lady: an excellent category of woman according to the Kama Sutra. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.
  • Left profile of a boy exemplifying ancient Greek male beauty. Drawing, c. 1791.
  • An upper class young woman; representing the St James's area of London. Stipple engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1783, after J.H. Benwell.
  • The head of Apollo, his physiognomy having metamorphosed from that of a frog. Coloured drawing by J.C. Lavater, 179-.
  • Bathsheba brings the young maid Abishag to the aging King David for body heat. Mezzotint by R. Earlom, 1779, after G. Farington after A. van der Werff, 1696.
  • A young woman casting a spell. Stipple engraving by T.L. Grundy, 1838, after W. Bradley.