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Design for a plate to J. C. Lavater’s, ‘Essays on Physiognomy’, translated by Henry Hunter, London, 1789–1798, vol.III.ii., facing pp.366–367. In the published text Lavater makes a comparison between the top three profiles as to their virtues. The bottom two, however, ‘approach to folly’; wherever an arch of the nose is exaggerated or lengthened, there can be found mental derangement.
Title
Five Profiles Exhibited for Their Noses
Date
c.1794
Medium
pencil on paper (?)
Measurements
H 16.6 x W 14.3 cm
Accession number
30947i
Acquisition method
presumed to be part of the collection formed by Henry S. Wellcome
Work type
Drawing
Wellcome Collection
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