Cranium Collection

Cranial Dissection, plate five from Anatomy of the Head, in Printed Paintings, 1748

Anatomical Drawings of Two Skulls in Profile to the Left, c1480 (1945). Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Anatomical Drawings of Two Skulls in Profile to the Left, c1480 (1945). From The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. [Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1945]

Base of the skull, 1848. Comparison of a Negro (native of Kongo), Chilamache native American (from Louisiana), and Chinese (from Canton)

Three types of human skull, 1848. Comparison of a Negro (native of Kongo), Chilamache native American (from Louisiana), and Chinese (from Canton)

Ancient Cimbrian, Esthonian Finn, Lappe, 1848. An engraving from the Natural History of Man, by James Cowles Prichard, (Hippolyte Bailliere, London, third edition, 1848)

Human and orang-utan skulls, 1848. Illustrations of the base of the skull. An engraving from the Natural History of Man, by James Cowles Prichard, (Hippolyte Bailliere, London, third edition, 1848)

Lateral view of the skull or profile, 1848. Comparison of the skulls of European and African humans with those of the chimpanzee and orang-utan

The vertical configuration of the skull, 1848. Comparison of Caucasian, Mongole, Negro and Titicacan skulls. During the 19th century

Self-portrait, c1850-1867. Artist: Charles Pierre Baudelaire
Self-portrait, c1850-1867. From a private collection

Franz Joseph Gall, German physician and founder of Phrenology, c1790
Franz Joseph Gall, German physician and founder of Phrenology, c1820. Phrenology was a theory, propounded by Gall (1758-1828) in around 1800

Phrenology, 1820 (1886). Artist: Frank Dadd
Phrenology, 1820 (1886). Measuring the bumps on a boys head to assess his future. On the wall in the background is a portrait of of Franz Josef Gall (1757-1828)

Phrenology chart, showing presumed areas of activity of the brain, c1920. Phrenology was a theory, propounded by the German physician Franz Joseph Gall in around 1800

Skull of Piltdown Man (Eanothropus daswoni), 1912. This supposed fossil was discovered near Lewes, Sussex, in 1912 by Charles Dawson, a local solicitor and amateur archaeologist

Model of the skull of Piltdown Man (Eanothropus dawsoni), 1914. Artist: Dr Smith Woodward
Model of the skull of Piltdown Man (Eanothropus dawsoni), 1914. Model as reconstructed by Dr Smith Woodward. Dark areas are from the original fossil, the light are the restored areas

Skull in profile to right, 1645. Creator: Wenceslaus Hollar
Skull in profile to right, 1645

Sectioned skull in profile to left with the left side of the cranium removed, 1651

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