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Members of the British Association playing at phrenology on board a ship on its way to South Africa. Photograph by J.T. Bottomley, 1905.
1 photograph (album folio 1 verso) : photoprint ; image 9.7 x 7.5 cm
In a lunatic asylum, and in the company of a variety of other deranged individuals, a half-naked Ramble Gripe, his wrists chained, is restrained by orderlies.
1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 23.4 x 31.2 cm.
In a lunatic asylum, and in the company of a variety of other deranged individuals, a half-naked Ramble Gripe, his wrists chained, is restrained by orderlies.
To the right a young woman faints supported by another woman who applies smelling salts. In the background "men mimick poets, popes, or kings". A geometrician draws diagrams and figures on the wall and a woman admires her reflection in a broken…
The devil examining the head of a boy; three other boys lurk under the devil's wings; frontispiece to a manual on phrenology. Steel engraving by J.D. Nargeot, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
1 print : steel engraving
A head marked with images representing the phrenological faculties, with a key below. Coloured wood engraving, ca. 1845, after H. Bushea and O.S. Fowler (?).
1 print : wood engraving (?), with watercolour and letterpress
William Wilkinson, a patient at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire. "Melancholia."
1 photograph : photoprint, albumen ; sheet 9 x 5.5 cm
Mary Shaw, a patient at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire. "Simple Mania"
1 photograph : photoprint, albumen ; sheet 9 x 5.5 cm