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  • A youth whose physiognomy attests to unrefinability and obstinate weakness. Drawing, c. 1789, after D.N. Chodowiecki.
  • Twelve human profiles in outline, sectioned to show their disproportion. Drawing, c. 1794, after A. Dürer.
  • A head containing over thirty images symbolising the phrenological faculties. Wood engraving, c. 1845, after O.S. Fowler (?).
  • Idealized profile of Martha Hess, exemplifying Lavater's principle of the homogeneity of the face. Drawing, c. 1791, after J.H. Füssli.
  • Oppyck: portrait. Drawing, c. 1794.
  • Eyes which express (according to Lavater) a good but weak and thus possibly suspicious character. Drawing, c. 1794.
  • Profiles of three men deemed untrustworthy by Lavater in his account of physiognomy. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Sixteen portraits of classical poets and thinkers. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Eight physiognomies. Drawings by D.N. Chodowiecki, ca. 1789, after C. Le Brun.
  • Three portraits shown for their phrenological exemplarity: Gall, Eustache and Chauffron. Lithograph by C. Picard, 1842, after J.P. Thenot.
  • Head of a lynx and two figures of the head of a beaver. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Eyes expressing a noble and magnanimous character with an ordered mind, according to Lavater's method of physiognomy. Drawing, c. 1794.
  • Progression of a woman through the ages of fifty to a hundred. Drawing, c. 1794.
  • A woman paying mild attention to something. Drawing, c. 1794, after N. Poussin.
  • A characterful patient at Bethlem hospital, London. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.
  • Head of the Apollo Belvedere statue in the Vatican. Drawing, c. 1791.
  • Grau: portrait. Drawing, c. 1794.
  • Progression of a man through the ages of fifty to a hundred. Drawing, c. 1794.
  • A man whose physiognomy expresses penetration, quickness, and a talent for communication. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • An Italian brigand attacking a gentleman on a road; exhibiting the phrenological 'propensity' of 'destructiveness'. Steel engraving by S. Wolff, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • Skulls of twenty-one animals. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • An eye; according to Lavater, belonging to a German poet. Drawing, c. 1794.
  • Progression of a man through the ages of infancy to the age of fifty. Engraving, c. 1794.
  • A woman surgeon and her assistant cupping a patient. Oil painting after Cornelis Dusart.
  • Balthazar Bekker: portrait. Drawing, c. 1794.
  • Outlines and designs of foreheads, showing their wrinkles and contours. Drawing, c. 1794.
  • The death mask of William Palmer, the poisoner. Lithograph after M. Krantz, c. 1860.
  • Seven British politicians as statues on plinths inscribed with the names of ancient characters as well as their own names in abbreviation. Engraving, 1746.
  • The death mask of William Palmer, the poisoner. Lithograph after M. Krantz, c. 1860.
  • Tiberius Dominikus Wocher: portrait. Drawing, c. 1791, after T.D. Wocher.