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  • A laughing face. Engraving by M. Engelbrecht (?), 1732, after C. Le Brun.
  • Designs showing the lower half of the face in various physiognomies and actions. Engraving after C. Le Brun.
  • Child's head with large temporal lobes and depressed frontal lobe. Drawing, c. 1900.
  • A man whose face expresses, according to Lavater, a great capacity for discernment. Drawing, c. 1794.
  • An écorché face showing the state of the facial muscles during relaxation. Stipple engraving by H. Singleton (?) after G.T. Stubbs after G. Stubbs, 1815.
  • Judas Iscariot. Drawing, c. 1789, after H. Holbein.
  • Sixteen portraits of classical poets and thinkers. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Desiderius Erasmus: portrait in profile. Drawing, c. 1795, after H. Holbein.
  • A woman expressing attention, desire and hope. Drawing, c. 1788, after Raphael.
  • Progression of a man through the ages of fifty to a hundred. Engraving, c. 1794.
  • A man's face inclined forward, expressing compassion. Engraving by M. Engelbrecht (?), 1732, after C. Le Brun.
  • Sixteen faces expressing the human passions. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1821, after C. Le Brun.
  • Head of "a backward boy" divided into four cerebral lobes: profile. Ink drawing with watercolour, c. 1900.
  • Mercier, an architect. Drawing, c. 1793, after J. Morin.
  • An unnamed character with a grotesque face. Line engraving attributed to D. Custos.
  • The face of a man in a state of anger. Engraving by J. Tinney, ca. 1730/1740, after C. Le Brun.
  • L'art de connaître les hommes par la physionomie ... / par M. Moreau.
  • A young man in caricature, the features of his face bunched up into a small area. Engraving by B. Bossi, 1776, after himself.
  • The infant John the Baptist. Drawing, c. 1791, after Raphael.
  • A profile of an old mentally disabled man, skulls of various races, skulls of a monkey and an orangutan, and a perfect, diagrammed human face; demonstrating the methods of physiognomy. Coloured engraving by H. Adlard, 1824.
  • Eight physiognomies. Drawing, c. 1789, after D.N. Chodowiecki and C. Le Brun.
  • Seven vignettes of people suffering from different types of mental illness. Lithograph by W. Spread and J. Reed, 1858.
  • Three heads showing phrenological traits associated with insanity: a mentally defective person, a mad woman, and the murderer P.F. Lacenaire. Lithograph by C. Picard, 1842, after J.P. Thenot.
  • Lucas Vorsterman, the engraver: portrait. Drawing, c. 1791, after A. van Dyck.
  • L'art de connaître les hommes par la physionomie ... / par M. Moreau.
  • Statues of an apostle and Christ (?). Drawing, c. 1793.
  • A bust showing a phlegmatic-sanguine temperament. Drawing, c. 1792.
  • Two outlines of faces expressing admiration (left) and astonishment (right). Etching by B. Picart, 1713, after C. Le Brun.
  • Two faces: one expressing extreme despair (left), the other anger mixed with rage (right). Etching by B. Picart, 1713, after C. Le Brun.
  • Human physiognomies next to animal physiognomies, showing the relations between certain of the species. Etching, c. 1820, after C. Le Brun.