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Franz Joseph Gall. Stipple engraving, 1805.

Franz Joseph Gall. Mezzotint by E.J. Ruhierre, 1839, after Marie-Guilhelmine Benoist.

Franz Joseph Gall. Line engraving by A. Karcher after F. Jagemann.

Phrenological illustrations, or an artist's view of the craniological system of Doctors Gall and Spurzheim / By George Cruikshank.

Franz Joseph Gall. Mezzotint by F. Wrenk, 1803, after Catharina Escherich.

Franz Joseph Gall. Stipple engraving by J.D. Laurens after C.H. Rahl.

In a room filled with skulls of the famous, the phrenologist Gall examines William Pitt the Younger and Gustavus IV, the King of Sweden, both currently plagued by Napoleon. Coloured etching, 1806.

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 chart with portraits of historical figures and illustrations of skulls exhibiting racial characteristics. Lithograph by G. E. Madeley, authored by C. Donovan, c. 1850.

Ein Falsifikat der Goethezeit : Franz Joseph Gall kontra Ignatz Cajetan Theodor Ferdinand Arnold / Gunter Mann und Stefan Grus.

L'arte de conoscere gli uomini : il piccolo Lavater e Dottor Gall / per Alessandro David ; edizione illustrata con vignette.

Handbuch der Phrenologie.

Phrenological propensities: language, ideality, wit, imitation and approbation, comparison; illustrated by foul-mouthed fishwives, a man imagining ghosts, a woman tricked in a churchyard, Mathews mimicking a phrenologist's lecture, a tall thin man passing a short fat woman. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826, after himself.

L'art de connaître les hommes par la physionomie ... / par M. Moreau.

Anatomie et physiologie du système nerveux en général, et du cerveau en particulier, avec des observations sur la possibilité de reconnoître plusieurs dispositions intellectuelles et morales de l'homme et des animaux par la configuration de leurs têtes / Par F. J. Gall et G. Spurzheim.

A female brain, sectioned vertically: side view. Process print, 1901, after etching, 1809.

Untersuchungen ueber die Anatomie des Nervensystems ueberhaupt, und des Gehirns insbesondere / [F.J. Gall].

L'organo dell'anima : fisiologia cerebrale e disciplina dei comportamenti / Franz Joseph Gall ; a cura di Claudio Pogliano ; [traduzioni di Claudio Pogliano].

The brain seen from the underside, sectioned horizontally; with attention to the parts associated by Hollander's system of phrenology with the faculties of external perception and its memory. Process print, 1901, after etching, 1809.

Sur les fonctions du cerveau et sur celles de chacune de ses parties.

A guide to human and comparative phrenology : With observations on the national varieties of the cranium, and a description of Drs. Gall and Spurzheim's method of dissecting the human brain / By Henry William Dewhurst.

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Gall, F. J. (Franz Joseph), 1758-1828

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Untersuchungen ueber die Anatomie des Nervensystems ueberhaupt, und des Gehirns insbesondere / [F.J. Gall].

L'organo dell'anima : fisiologia cerebrale e disciplina dei comportamenti / Franz Joseph Gall ; a cura di Claudio Pogliano ; [traduzioni di Claudio Pogliano].

The brain seen from the underside, sectioned horizontally; with attention to the parts associated by Hollander's system of phrenology with the faculties of external perception and its memory. Process print, 1901, after etching, 1809.

Sur les fonctions du cerveau et sur celles de chacune de ses parties.

A guide to human and comparative phrenology : With observations on the national varieties of the cranium, and a description of Drs. Gall and Spurzheim's method of dissecting the human brain / By Henry William Dewhurst.