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  • A male brain, sectioned vertically. Process print, 1901, after etching, 1809.
  • A phrenologist working on the head of a boy. Watercolour painting by J. Leech.
  • A phrenologist in his consulting room, examining the head of a young man and dictating the results to his assistant while a woman looks on. Coloured etching by George Cruikshank, 1826, after H.T.D.B.
  • George Combe lecturing on phrenology, portrayed with protuberances on his head. Coloured lithograph 1826.
  • Johann Caspar Spurzheim giving a phrenological demonstration before Franz Joseph Gall and another seven people; a grinning devil looks on. Watercolour painting.
  • A head containing over thirty images symbolising the phrenological faculties, accompanied by a key. Coloured lithograph, c. 1875, after O.S. Fowler (?).
  • A phrenologist comparing his own head with a phrenological bust. Oil painting by Albert W. Holden.
  • Phrenological illustrations, or an artist's view of the craniological system of Doctors Gall and Spurzheim / By George Cruikshank.
  • George Combe lecturing on phrenology, portrayed with protuberances on his head. Coloured lithograph 1826.
  • 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.
  • Phrenology: the human and animal brain, the location of its functions according to the principles of phrenology, and personalia of phrenologists. Photographs, drawings and newsletters.
  • A phrenologist comparing his own head with a phrenological bust. Oil painting by Albert W. Holden.
  • Phrenological head of Sir Robert Peel as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Lithograph, ca. 1844.
  • A head containing over thirty images symbolising the phrenological faculties. Wood engraving, c. 1845, after O.S. Fowler (?).
  • Skulls of male and female Capuchin monkeys, with vertical sections. Lithograph by G. Engelmann after C.P. Mazer, ca 1835.
  • A head divided in two, the left half showing activities numbered 1 to 42. Lithograph by Frank Ellis, 1901.
  • A phrenologist comparing his own head with a phrenological bust. Oil painting by Albert W. Holden.
  • A head divided into thirty seven compartments, each containing an image representing a phrenological faculty. Wood engraving, after O.S. Fowler, c. 1840.
  • A crowd watches as two men gamble; representing the phrenological faculty of acquisitiveness. Steel engraving by L.A. Portier, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • Death mask of Eustache, a slave from the Dominican republic who came to be awarded a 'prize for virtue' in 1830's Paris. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • A phrenologist comparing his own head with a phrenological bust. Oil painting by Albert W. Holden.
  • Sixteen feet in profile, of women and men: a parody of phrenology. Coloured etching.
  • Forty years in phrenology : embracing recollections of history, anecdote, and experience / [Nelson Sizer].
  • Phrenological chart; with design of head containing 4 illustrations showing activity of brain. Colour lithograph.
  • Sixteen feet in profile, of women and men: a parody of phrenology. Coloured etching.
  • The criminal / by Havelock Ellis.
  • Seven vignettes illustrating phrenological propensities: tune, covetiveness, secretiveness, size, firmness, time, weight; illustrated by an organ-grinder, a pick-pocket, an adulterer, the huge Daniel Lambert, a pavior with his rammer, a winged clock, a crown on a cushion. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826, after himself.
  • George Combe lecturing on phrenology to a mixed audience in his Edinburgh home?; presented as a monkey with a phrenological head. Lithograph.
  • An anxious man comparing his own head to a skull, using the technique of phrenology. Oil painting by Theodore Lane, 182-.
  • Portraits of people with phrenological interpretations. Engravings, lithographs etc., with text by Joseph Marriott, 1850.