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Phrenology

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  • Phrenological diagrams of the skull and brain, with three portraits: Laurence Sterne, a mathematician, and Shakespeare; exemplifying the faculties of wit, number and imagination respectively. Engraving by H. Sawyer after W. Byam, 1818.
  • A phrenologist at work on a girl, surrounded by members of her family. Engraving by C. Rolls after E. Sharpe, c. 1830.
  • Phrenological properties of drawing: colour, form, space, order. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826.
  • Human skull: frontal view. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • Phrenological illustrations, or an artist's view of the craniological system of Doctors Gall and Spurzheim / By George Cruikshank.
  • The death-mask of Maria Manning, the murderer: three views. Lithograph by John Lane.
  • Johann Caspar Spurzheim. Lithograph by J.H. Bufford after A. Fisher.
  • Joseph Millot Severn, a British phrenologist, examining a boy. Colour process print, c. 1929.
  • An opinionated child ignores his parents; representing the faculty of obstinacy in phrenology. Steel engraving, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • Child's head with large temporal lobes and depressed frontal lobe. Drawing, c. 1900.
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Works

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    Colloquies : imaginary conversations between a phrenologist and the shade of Dugald Stewart / by J. Slade.

    Slade, J. | Date: 1838
  • view A catechism of phrenology : illustrative of the principles of that science / by a Member of the Phrenological Society of Edinburgh.
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    A catechism of phrenology : illustrative of the principles of that science / by a Member of the Phrenological Society of Edinburgh.

    | Date: 1835
  • view Utility of phrenology : a lecture / by L.N. Fowler.
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    Utility of phrenology : a lecture / by L.N. Fowler.

    Fowler, L. N. (Lorenzo Niles), 1811-1896 | Date: Between 1873 and 1879?]
  • view Phrenology : or the doctrine of the mental phenomena / by J.G. Spurzheim ; with an introduction by Cyrus Elder.
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    Phrenology : or the doctrine of the mental phenomena / by J.G. Spurzheim ; with an introduction by Cyrus Elder.

    Spurzheim, J. G. (Johann Gaspar), 1776-1832 | Date: 1908
  • view Phrenology, and how to use it in analyzing character.
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    Phrenology, and how to use it in analyzing character.

    Morgan, Nicholas | Date: 1871
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