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  • Skulls of male and female Capuchin monkeys, with vertical sections. Lithograph by G. Engelmann after C.P. Mazer, ca 1835.
  • A crowd watches as two men gamble; representing the phrenological faculty of acquisitiveness. Steel engraving by L.A. Portier, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • Death mask of Eustache, a slave from the Dominican republic who came to be awarded a 'prize for virtue' in 1830's Paris. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • Sixteen feet in profile, of women and men: a parody of phrenology. Coloured etching.
  • Forty years in phrenology : embracing recollections of history, anecdote, and experience / [Nelson Sizer].
  • Phrenological chart; with design of head containing 4 illustrations showing activity of brain. Colour lithograph.
  • Sixteen feet in profile, of women and men: a parody of phrenology. Coloured etching.
  • The criminal / by Havelock Ellis.
  • Seven vignettes illustrating phrenological propensities: tune, covetiveness, secretiveness, size, firmness, time, weight; illustrated by an organ-grinder, a pick-pocket, an adulterer, the huge Daniel Lambert, a pavior with his rammer, a winged clock, a crown on a cushion. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826, after himself.
  • George Combe lecturing on phrenology to a mixed audience in his Edinburgh home?; presented as a monkey with a phrenological head. Lithograph.
  • An anxious man comparing his own head to a skull, using the technique of phrenology. Oil painting by Theodore Lane, 182-.
  • Portraits of people with phrenological interpretations. Engravings, lithographs etc., with text by Joseph Marriott, 1850.
  • Phrenological properties of drawing: colour, form, space, order. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826.
  • A head containing over thirty images symbolising the phrenological faculties, accompanied by a key. Coloured lithograph, c. 1875, after O.S. Fowler (?).
  • Phrenological chart; with design of head containing symbols of the phrenological faculties, and diagrams of heads showing criminal and moral propensities. Wood engraving, c. 1850, after F. Bridges and O.S. Fowler.
  • Franz Joseph Gall and Johann Caspar Spurzheim examining a patient. Watercolour painting.
  • Six vignettes illustrating phrenological propensities: hope, conscientiousness, veneration, cautiousness, benevolence, causality; illustrated by a dog anxious for scraps, a maid attempting a good price for her masters old clothes, an obese gourmand eying an enormous side of beef, a prim couple crossing a muddy road, a man being flogged, Liston acting the part of Paul Pry. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826, after himself.
  • Phrenological head of Lord Ellenborough as Governor General of India 1841-1844. Lithograph, ca. 1844.