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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.
  • Indian fortune-teller with client. Gouache drawing.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • A woman having her palm read by a fortune-teller. Engraving after A.E. Chalon.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • An astrologer telling a lady's fortune. Lithograph by J. Prat after C.C. Renoux.
  • Gregorio Dati, <i>La sfera</i>
  • A "spae wife" (fortune-teller). Engraving by J.A. Wright after T. Stothard.
  • A young couple visit a fortune teller to have their future predicted. Engraving by Charles Rolls after Alfred Johannot.
  • A rosary, a medallion of St Benedict, a charm said to cause loss of eyesight, and hands showing lines and features to be interpreted by palmistry (including lines forecasting violent death); all illustrating 'superstition'. Engraving.
  • Egyptian fortune-tellers outside a palace on the Nile. Etching by V. Pillement, J.L.C. Pauquet and F. Dequevauviller after L.F. Cassas, 1798.
  • A young woman of humble origins, surrounded by children, is being told by a fortune teller that she will have a happy marriage. Lithograph by C. Constans after L. Boilly, 1824.
  • A lavishly dressed lady accompanied by her black servant is having her fortune told by a seated old man wearing a black cloak. Etching by C. Heath, 1830, after A.E. Chalon.
  • Arabic geomantic signs, wheel of life and death, the zodiac wheel and the Veronica. Engraving.
  • A woman consulting a fortune-teller by a stile. Engraving after Samuel J.E. Jones.