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  • A man on horseback consulting a fortune-teller or gipsy. Engraving.
  • A Romany fortune-teller is reading the palm of a young woman suffering unrequited love; two other Romany women are leaning over a fence and children are sitting around a fire. Etching by P.W. Tomkins after H.W. Bunbury, 1791.
  • Folio 31 recto, Wellcome MS Persian 466.
  • Four scenes all involving water: trial by water, people using divination rods, and different types of rods. Engraving.
  • A Turkish oracle; the torture wheel of Pope Pius VI. Engraving.
  • Mary Squires the fortune teller foretells the future to Sir John Hill: she indicates that she has support from the Lord Mayor of London. Etching, 1753.
  • [Wellcome MS. Batak 331834].
  • A woman telling a man's fortune. Watercolour by A. E. Chalon.
  • Br̥hatsāmudrikaśāstra / strīpuruṣalakṣaṇa,Paṇḍitanārāyaṇaprasādamiśrakr̥tabhāṣāṭīkāsahita.
  • A woman with her attendant visiting a fortune-teller. Etching.
  • A countrywoman is telling the fortune of a young artist at the entrance to a chapel; two other artists walk past on the right; five paintings on the wall. Drawing by B. Pinelli, 1811.
  • The book of knowledge; treating of the wisdom of the ancients. In four parts. I Shewing the various and wonderful operations of the signs and planets ... II. Prognostications for ever, necessary to keep the body in health ... III. An abstract of the art of physiognomy and palmestry ... IV. The farmer's kalendar ... / Written by Errapater ... Made English by W. Lilley ... To which is added, The dealer's directory; containing, 1. The true form of all sorts of bills, bonds ... 2. The best method of getting in debts ... 3. An account of weights, measures, numbers, coins.
  • Folio 41r, Wellcome MS Persian 466.
  • A fortune-teller reading a gentleman's palm. Engraving by B. Audran after Michelangelo Merisi, il Caravaggio, 1729.
  • Two women consulting a fortune-teller. Engraving by J. Romney after T. Stothard.
  • Duncan Campbell, a deaf and dumb soothsayer. Line engraving.
  • A man in Madagascar predicting the future with seeds (sikidy). Process print, ca. 1930, after G. Grandidier.
  • A woman having her palm read by a fortune-teller. Engraving after A.E. Chalon.
  • Folio 30v-31r, Wellcome MS Persian 466.
  • A fortune-teller is reading the palm of a woman with little girl on her lap. Engraving by J.K. Sherwin after J. Reynolds, 1786.
  • A young woman dressed in white faints after hearing the predictions of a fortune-teller. Engraving by L.S. (?) L'Empereur after H. van Gorp, 1800/1810.
  • David Teniers has a gipsy fortune-teller read the palm of his wife. Engraving by L. Surugue, 1750, after D. Teniers the younger.
  • Two women having their palms read by fortune-teller, a man signalling from behind a tree. Etching.
  • Bloodletting chart, Tibet
  • An old fortune-teller is looking at a young woman's palm. Engraving, 1670/1700.
  • A woman telling a man's fortune. Watercolour by A. E. Chalon.
  • Folio 40v, Wellcome MS Persian 466.
  • An astrologer telling a lady's fortune. Lithograph by J. Prat after C.C. Renoux.
  • Gregorio Dati, <i>La sfera</i>
  • Folio 30v, Wellcome MS Persian 466.