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Collection: Striking Impressions

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A colourful humanoid face with a huge nose and grinning mouth. Three cobras painted with black, yellow, red, white and blue patterns emerge from its forehead.

A colourful wolf like mask. It has a large snout and jaws that can open and close, with teeth painted on and red lips. Most of the mask is blue with black details. The eyes appear to be made from the bottoms of wine glasses. It has ears in the form of human faces which also have mouths that can open and close.

A colourful wolf like mask. It has a large snout and jaws that can open and close, with teeth painted on and red lips. Most of the mask is blue with black details. The eyes appear to be made from the bottoms of wine glasses. It has ears in the form of human faces which also have mouths that can open and close.

A cylindrical mirror standing on a distorted illustration of a face in profile. The illustration is stretched out around a circle, but appears to look normal in the mirrors reflection.

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A grinning brass humanoid face with fangs sticking its tongue out. It has large eyebrows and moustaches, a third eye on its forehead, pierced ears with long drooping lobes, and a headdress of five flaming skulls.

A medal. On one side is the profile of a large man with handsome features, curly hair and plate armour. On the reverse, the same face appears on an extremely muscley naked figure wearing a lions pelt. He is rescuing a woman bearing the Union flag on a shield from a monstrous humanoid.

A miniature mask with the face of an Asian man. He has an exaggerated angry expression with bulging veins, a red flush to his skin, and bristling eyebrows and moustache.

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.

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

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A small, dark wooden sculpture of a head with arms held out in front and hands together. The nose and lower face protrude in an exaggerated manner. It has a hat, eyes of mother of pearl, and pierced ears.

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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