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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

Lithograph of a wounded man on a bed as a woman kneels to suck poison from his arm, with knights and attendants watching.

King Edward I of England, wounded in the arm during a Crusade, has the poison sucked from the wound by Queen Eleanor.…

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

Lithograph of a dissection scene with a physician and seven men in ruffs gathered around an open corpse on a table.

Nicolaus Tulp demonstrating anatomy to seven syndics of the Surgeons' Guild of Amsterdam. Lithograph by Desguerrois a…

Rembrandt van Rijn

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

Etching of seven men in dark clothing and white collars watching a surgeon demonstrate on an open corpse lying on a table.

Nicolaus Tulp demonstrating anatomy to seven syndics of the Surgeons' Guild of Amsterdam. Etching by W. Unger after R…

Rembrandt van Rijn

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

Etching of a physician demonstrating dissection to seven attentive men gathered around a body on a table.

Nicolaus Tulp demonstrating anatomy to seven syndics of the Surgeons' Guild of Amsterdam. Etching by L. Flameng after…

Rembrandt van Rijn

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

Black and white lithograph of a deathbed scene with an elderly woman in a canopied bed surrounded by veiled women in mourning

The deathbed of Madame de Maintenon at the Maison Royale de Saint-Louis, at St Cyr. Lithograph after G. Mailand, 1837

Gustave Mailand

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

Etching of conjoined twins Helen and Judith, nude, shown in front and back views with raised arms.

Hélène and Judith, siamese twins, known as the Hungarian sisters. Etching by B. Cole

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