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  • A vaccinated man grows horns in front of a couple with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.
  • A 14th century silver drinking horn with explanatory text. Wood-engraving, late 19th century.
  • An African medicine man or shaman applying the technique of cupping to a patient (using animal horns), which involves drawing blood to the surface of the body. Watercolour.
  • A hairy goat with long curved horns. Engraving.
  • John Cottington, a chimney-sweep, in elaborate costume walking the street with smoking pipe and horn in hand, with descriptive verse. Line block, 18--, after engraving, c. 1620.
  • At Fawk's booth in the upper Moorfields, is to be seen a miracle of nature, being a woman that has a horn growing on the back part of her head, full 10 inches long ...
  • A rhinoceros with a phallic-like horn and an elongated condom with the message in French: "What distinguishes humans from animals is (it is said) intelligence"; a statement about AIDS. Colour silk screen print after A. Le Quernec, 1993.
  • At Fawk's booth in the upper Moorfields, is to be seen a miracle of nature, being a woman that has a horn growing on the back part of her head, full 10 inches long ...
  • To the curious in nature : the Horned Woman : who has a horn growing on her head, like those in a young ram.
  • A ram, possibly of the blue or Burrhel sheep, with long curved horns. Lithograph by J Wolf.
  • Twenty two ancient drinking vessels from an exhibition. Wood-engraving, c. 1873, after J. T. Balcomb.
  • A vaccinated man grows horns in front of a couple with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.
  • Three cows' heads, including one long horn and a short horn, and a small scale bull and cow. Etching, ca 1801.
  • The head of a rhinoceros with overgrown horn thought to be a unicorn. Coloured lithograph by (J.H.?) Clark after Campbell.
  • Three papaya trees (Carica papaya) with lizards, dodos and a man hunting in an exotic, tropical landscape. Etching, c. 1671.
  • A man is selling horns from his basket, as emblems of cuckoldry: husbands reply that they will not buy any because they already have plenty. Engraving by Frs. Hubert after Le Nain (?).
  • A Gazaland medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after Dudley Kidd.
  • An African medicine man cupping and bleeding two patients. Wood engraving by Dalziel after J. Leech.
  • A silver drinking horn dating from the 14th century. Engraving by J. & H. S. Storer, 1821.
  • A medicine or shaman adorned with white paint, standing above a sick man trying to drive away the disease. Halftone.
  • An African medicine man or shaman applying the technique of cupping to a patient (using animal horns), which involves drawing blood to the surface of the body. Halftone.