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Collection: Striking Impressions

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An enormous, round, shapeless head without a face, wearing laurels.

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Animal faces

Animal faces

Bald man with a scowl and crooked brows.

Bearded man with voluminous black hair.

Beautiful faces

Beautiful faces

Bronze bust of a laughing Black woman.

Caricature of Napoleon Bonaparte. He is depicted as a small man with an oversized hat, bulging eyes, beak-like nose, a gaping mouth with curled lips, and his chin curves upwards.

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Ceramic ink well in the form of a head on a plinth. The upper left half of the head is divided by lines into irregularly shaped sections, with the most sections clustered on the forehead and around the eye. The sections are numbered and labelled: form, individuality, eventuality, comparison, benevolence, veneration, locality, causality, imitation, hope, conscientiousness, language, order, time, wit, wonder, number, tune, ideality, constructiveness, acquisitiveness, cautiousness, secretiveness, destructiveness.

Coloured print of a large grinning man wearing a tricorn hat and ringing a bell. He has large eyebrows and stubble.

Coloured print. A cruel looking bald man, Tom Nero, is held by a crowd carrying pitchforks. A murdered woman lies on the ground with a bundle of stolen items. Members of the crowd hold up a knife and letter from the murdered woman which incriminate Nero.

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