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  • Franz Joseph Gall measuring the head of a bald, elegantly dressed old lady; her pet poodle is entwined in her wig on a chair. Coloured aquatint by F.C. Hunt after E.F. Lambert, ca. 1823.
  • Franz Joseph Gall examining the head of a pretty girl, while three gentlemen wait in line. Coloured lithograph by E.H., 1825.
  • Phrenological chart : designed to illustrate the treatise on phrenology, in the "Imperial journal of the arts and sciences".
  • The bases of three skulls: a new born infant's, a misogynist's, and a man suffering from satyriasis. Process print, 1901, after etching, 1809.
  • An introverted and an extroverted man; exhibiting excessive and lacking propensities connected with the faculty of causality (reflective thought) in phrenology. Steel engraving by E. Monnin, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • Doctor Spurzheim in his consulting room measuring the head of a peculiar looking patient; a bemused barber looks on. Coloured aquatint by J. Kennerly, 1816, after R. Cocking.
  • A profile of a man bisected with a curve for measuring the brain, skulls of a Turk (top right), a Georgian woman (bottom left) and a Caribbean (bottom right). Coloured engraving by H. Adlard, 1824.
  • 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 (?).
  • A smartly dressed woman examining the head of a military man. Coloured etching attributed to W. Heath, ca 1830.
  • The phrenologist Bernard Hollander illustrating with his own head his system of cranial measurements. Photographs, c. 1902.
  • Skull of a soldier: frontal view. Lithograph, 1835.
  • Three perspectives of a head divided according to phrenological 'faculties', with key. Colour pen drawing.
  • An artist measures a model of the human body from a distance with one eye shut; representing the faculty of perception in extended space in phrenological classification. Steel engraving by J-I-L. Desjardins, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • Phrenological head of Lord Ellenborough as Governor General of India 1841-1844. Lithograph, ca. 1844.
  • An anxious man comparing his own head to a skull, using the technique of phrenology. Coloured lithograph after T. Lane, c. 1825.
  • The criminal / by Havelock Ellis.
  • The human head, divided according to the system of phrenology. Coloured lithograph by C. Ingrey, 1824.
  • [Newspaper clipping (1880) advertising an appearance by Chang, the Fychow giant and Professor Cross, phrenologist at the Royal Aquarium, London and King Theebaw's sacred Burmese hairy family at the Piccadilly Hall, London].
  • Three perspectives of a skull, sectioned and numbered according to Gall's system of phrenology. Etching by Mutlow.
  • A male brain, sectioned vertically. Process print, 1901, after etching, 1809.
  • A phrenologist working on the head of a boy. Watercolour painting by J. Leech.
  • A phrenologist in his consulting room, examining the head of a young man and dictating the results to his assistant while a woman looks on. Coloured etching by George Cruikshank, 1826, after H.T.D.B.
  • George Combe lecturing on phrenology, portrayed with protuberances on his head. Coloured lithograph 1826.
  • Johann Caspar Spurzheim giving a phrenological demonstration before Franz Joseph Gall and another seven people; a grinning devil looks on. Watercolour painting.
  • A head containing over thirty images symbolising the phrenological faculties, accompanied by a key. Coloured lithograph, c. 1875, after O.S. Fowler (?).
  • Phrenological illustrations, or an artist's view of the craniological system of Doctors Gall and Spurzheim / By George Cruikshank.
  • George Combe lecturing on phrenology, portrayed with protuberances on his head. Coloured lithograph 1826.
  • Phrenological diagrams of the skull and brain, with three portraits: Laurence Sterne, a mathematician, and Shakespeare; exemplifying the faculties of wit, number and imagination respectively. Engraving by H. Sawyer after W. Byam, 1818.
  • Phrenology: the human and animal brain, the location of its functions according to the principles of phrenology, and personalia of phrenologists. Photographs, drawings and newsletters.
  • Phrenological head of Sir Robert Peel as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Lithograph, ca. 1844.