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Coloured caricature of a phrenology lecture: a man in a dark coat points at a bust while listeners sit before a table of plaster heads and skulls.

George Combe lecturing on phrenology, portrayed with protuberances on his head. Coloured lithograph 1826.

A coloured lithograph caricature titled Calves' Heads and Brains, or a Phrenological Lecture. A lecturer in a dark coat points at a head-shaped bust while a crowd of well-dressed listeners sits before a table of plaster skulls and busts beneath framed caricatures on the wall.

Artist
Lump, J.
Date
September 1826
Medium
Caricatures Lithographs
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
4000 × 3089 px
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Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1826.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Wellcome Collection)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection

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