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  • The human head, divided according to the system of phrenology. Coloured lithograph by C. Ingrey, 1824.
  • [Newspaper clipping (1880) advertising an appearance by Chang, the Fychow giant and Professor Cross, phrenologist at the Royal Aquarium, London and King Theebaw's sacred Burmese hairy family at the Piccadilly Hall, London].
  • Three perspectives of a skull, sectioned and numbered according to Gall's system of phrenology. Etching by Mutlow.
  • 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.