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Wellcome Collection

2,683 works

Stipple engraving bust portrait of a man in a powdered wig, dark coat and white cravat, turned left.

Jean-Baptiste-Léon Dubreuil. Stipple engraving by C.A. Forestier

Charles-Aimé Forestier

Mezzotint portrait of a seated woman in a lace bonnet holding a rabbit, with a caption naming Mary Toft.

Mary Toft (Tofts). Mezzotint by J. Faber, 1726/1727, after J. Laguerre

Stipple engraving portrait of a balding man in a dark coat and white cravat, labeled Le Doct.r F. J. Gall.

Franz Joseph Gall. Stipple engraving by A. A. Bourgeois de la Richardière, 1808, after L. Boilly

Louis-Léopold Boilly

Thales of Miletus. Stipple engraving by J.H. Ramberg

Johann Heinrich Ramberg

Mezzotint portrait of Thomas Bell in a dark coat and bow tie, against a dark background.

Thomas Bell. Mezzotint by G. Zobel after Taples

Taples, active approximately 1853-approximately

Sir John Hill. Stipple engraving after F. Cotes 1757

Hand-colored etching of two nude figures and a marked child above a bust of an infant with one eye, labeled Monstres.

Anne-Marie Hérig, a girl with a skin abnormality; the conjoined twins Judith and Hélène; below, an infant with one ce…

Nicolas-Edouard Lerouge

Hand-coloured lithograph of Tshusick, an Ojibwa woman in a red jacket and tall feathered headdress, seated beside a table.

Tshusick, an Ojibwa woman, holding a flower. Coloured lithograph by A. Hoffy after C.B. King, 1837

Charles Bird King

Etching of a standing woman in a wide hat and pleated skirt, holding a basket of wares, with crosshatched background.

A beggar woman selling wares from a basket in her right hand. Etching by J. T. Smith, 1815

John Thomas Smith

Hand-coloured lithograph of a Sioux chief with feathered headdress and red face paint, holding a curved sword.

Mon-Ka-Ush-Ka (Monkaushka), a Sioux chief, holding a sword. Coloured lithograph by A. Hoffy after G. Cooke, 1837

Lithograph of a seated man painting with his feet at an easel, with a palette, bust and curtains in the background.

Louis-César-Joseph Ducornet, an artist born without arms. Lithograph by H. Robillard

Hippolyte Robillard

Coloured lithograph of a boy with scaly, dark skin on his limbs, standing by a table with magnified skin samples.

Thomas Jones, a boy with icthyosis, a skin disease that resembles fish scales. Coloured lithograph by J. Perry, 1841

Caricature lithograph of a bearded man in a suit pointing at a dog with its head in a glass bottle on a table.

Louis Pasteur. Colour lithograph by Amand, 188-(?)

Lithograph portrait of a young boy in a belted coat and lace collar, holding a top hat, with a printed caption below.

Master Noakes, a mental calculator. Lithograph by A. Mosses, 1827

Alexander Mosses

Giuseppe Garibaldi, head and shoulders. Chromolithograph, ca. 1880

Lithograph of a small figure in Roman-style armor with a plumed helmet and spear standing on a table among seated people.

Bébé, a dwarf dressed as a Roman soldier, standing on a table amidst people. Lithograph after A. Géniole

Alfred André Géniole

Etched oval portrait of a curly-haired man with a scene of liquid poured before a crowd, a sun, and a winged trumpeter.

Biagio di Manfrè, who regurgitated water transformed into other liquids, aged 72. Etching by W. Hollar

Wenceslaus Hollar

Etching of five men in period dress: a very tall central figure beside a small figure at right, on a wooden floor.

Charles Byrne, a giant, George Cranstoun, a dwarf, and three other normal sized men. Etching by J. Kay, 1794

Ellen Julia Hollond. Lithograph by L. Haghe, 1841

Etched portrait of a bearded man with curled hair holding a mask, with a Latin inscription below.

Giovanni Gabrielli ("Sivello") holding a mask. Etching by Agostino Carracci, ca. 1599

Agostino Carracci

Coloured lithograph portrait of a Seneca leader in feathered headdress holding a pipe and tomahawk, 1836.

Cornplanter, a leader of the Seneca tribe, holding a smoking pipe with pipe attachments and axe-blades. Colour lithog…

Etching of an elderly man in a head wrap propped in bed, with a hanging stocking and framed picture on the wall behind him.

David Ferguson, aged 123. Etching by T. Landseer, 1817, after H. Wrighte

Five caricature profiles of pharmacy-related men in a lithograph, with exaggerated noses and expressions, labeled in French.

A druggist, a pharmacy student, a pounder (of medicine), a chemist and a pharmacist. Lithograph by J. Platier, 1842

Hand-coloured lithograph of a boy with enormously long, tangled hair beside a dressing table and mirror, by Paul Gavarni.

A boy with incredibly long hair growing from his head and hands as a result of playing with a hair restorer. Coloured…

Etched portrait of a bearded woman in a period gown with a white collar, beside a small organ with pipes.

Barbara van Beck, a hirsute woman. Etching by R. Gaywood, 1656

Richard Gaywood

Engraving of Thomas Topham standing atop a wooden scaffold above three barrels, with diagonal bracing beams below.

Thomas Topham, lifting 1836 lbs. Etching, 1820, after C. Leigh

Monochrome portrait of a man in an ornate braided military uniform holding a tasselled sword against a dark background.

King George IV when Prince of Wales as Colonel of the tenth Light Dragoons. Photogravure, 1905, after W. Beechey

William Beechey

Lithograph of a small boy in a formal suit beside a desk with inkwell, quill, books, and champagne bottle.

Charles S. Stratton, a dwarf known as General Tom Thumb, aged twelve. Lithograph by C. Baugniet, 1844

Charles Baugniet

Sir Andrew Clark. Photogravure after R. Lehmann

Lithograph of a standing woman in a dark jacket and pale full skirt, with a flower in her hair, by Amand Gautier.

A mentally ill patient known as the 'princess of Salpêtrière'. Lithograph by A. Gautier, 1885