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Collection: Striking Impressions

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Handsome man with a high forehead.

Bald man with a scowl and crooked brows.

Bearded man with voluminous black hair.

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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Painting of Napoleon Bonaparte in imperial costume with golden laurels on his head. He faces the viewer with his piercing grey eyes, square brows, high forehead and strong, angular nose and lips.

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A well dressed man and woman next to a mirror and some makeup. They have enormous, styled hair put in large curls with feathers sticking out. The man is combing the woman's hair.

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A roughly drawn sketch of Hogarth's picture of John Wilkes, emphasising the picture's crossed eyes and crooked mouth.

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

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A print which depicts a row of scholars linking arms while another scholar speaks from a podium. The scholars are mostly dressed in black gowns with square caps, but some have an absurd appearance. One is depicted as a skeleton with a scythe, another wears all tartan and wields a polearm, and another has a large conical hat with an orb and cross on top.

Page of a book with an illustration of a human skull. The skull has irregularly shaped and numbered areas marked out on the upper part.

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