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On ugliness / edited by Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen.
Date: 2007
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A carbuncled woman retiring to bed; creating a satirical figure of female vanity. Coloured wood engraving.
Reference: 10741i
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Plain ugly : the unattractive body in early modern culture / Naomi Baker.
Baker, NaomiDate: 2010
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Two girls commenting on the fact that the new doctor's children are ugly as they pass them in the woods - misinterpreting the theory of natural selection. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier, 1892.
George du MaurierDate: 1892Reference: 14295i
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Look at my ugly face : myths and musings on beauty and other perilous obsessions with women's appearance / Sara Halprin.
Halprin, SaraDate: 1995
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A man in a large hood with an overhanging forehead and a protruding chin. Engraving by B. Bossi, 1775, after himself.
Benigno BossiDate: 1776Reference: 34702i
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Two distorted faces with protruding tongues, expressing ugly characters according to the physiognomist Lavater. Drawing, c. 1789.
Date: c. 1789Reference: 28705i
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Three grotesque old men with missing teeth grimacing and pointing at each other. Engraving by T. Sandars after J. Collier, 1773.
John CollierDate: [June 1773]Reference: 16625i
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Three grotesque old men with missing teeth pointing and grimacing at each other. Coloured stipple engraving, 1810, after J. Collier.
John CollierDate: 4 June 1810Reference: 16632i
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Ugliness : a cultural history / Gretchen E. Henderson.
Henderson, Gretchen E.Date: 2015
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An old woman with a long vertical nose; a physiognomic caricature. Engraving by B. Bossi, 1776, after himself.
Benigno BossiDate: 1776Reference: 34673i
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Histories of the normal and the abnormal : social and cultural histories of norms and normativity / edited by Waltraud Ernst.
Date: 2006
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A man whose face expresses (according to the study of physiognomy) austerity blended with wit and rhetorical powers. Engraving by Barlow, 19th century.
Reference: 31792i
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An old woman with a crumpled face, wearing elaborate costume; a physiognomic caricature. Engraving by B. Bossi, 1776, after himself.
Benigno BossiDate: 1776Reference: 34710i
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Twelve human profiles in outline, sectioned to show their disproportion. Drawing, c. 1794, after A. Dürer.
Albrecht DürerDate: 1794?Reference: 30621i
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An attractive woman courting a strange looking man; suggesting that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Coloured lithograph, 1833.
Date: 1833Reference: 10740i
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Mary Squires, a gypsy renowned for her ugliness. Engraving.
Reference: 1823i
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A profile evaluated by Lavater as harsh and displeasing, yet with traces of wit in the eyes. Drawing, c. 1789.
Date: c. 1789Reference: 28702i
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Zygo : the true history of the tragic life and triumphant death of Julia Pastrana, the ugliest woman in the world : the false corpse.
Date: [2005]

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On ugliness / edited by Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen.

A carbuncled woman retiring to bed; creating a satirical figure of female vanity. Coloured wood engraving.

Plain ugly : the unattractive body in early modern culture / Naomi Baker.

Two girls commenting on the fact that the new doctor's children are ugly as they pass them in the woods - misinterpreting the theory of natural selection. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier, 1892.

Look at my ugly face : myths and musings on beauty and other perilous obsessions with women's appearance / Sara Halprin.

A man in a large hood with an overhanging forehead and a protruding chin. Engraving by B. Bossi, 1775, after himself.

Two distorted faces with protruding tongues, expressing ugly characters according to the physiognomist Lavater. Drawing, c. 1789.

Three grotesque old men with missing teeth grimacing and pointing at each other. Engraving by T. Sandars after J. Collier, 1773.

Three grotesque old men with missing teeth pointing and grimacing at each other. Coloured stipple engraving, 1810, after J. Collier.

Ugliness : a cultural history / Gretchen E. Henderson.

An old woman with a long vertical nose; a physiognomic caricature. Engraving by B. Bossi, 1776, after himself.

Histories of the normal and the abnormal : social and cultural histories of norms and normativity / edited by Waltraud Ernst.

A man whose face expresses (according to the study of physiognomy) austerity blended with wit and rhetorical powers. Engraving by Barlow, 19th century.

An old woman with a crumpled face, wearing elaborate costume; a physiognomic caricature. Engraving by B. Bossi, 1776, after himself.

Twelve human profiles in outline, sectioned to show their disproportion. Drawing, c. 1794, after A. Dürer.

An attractive woman courting a strange looking man; suggesting that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Coloured lithograph, 1833.

Mary Squires, a gypsy renowned for her ugliness. Engraving.

A profile evaluated by Lavater as harsh and displeasing, yet with traces of wit in the eyes. Drawing, c. 1789.

Zygo : the true history of the tragic life and triumphant death of Julia Pastrana, the ugliest woman in the world : the false corpse.