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  • A physiognomy exemplifying what Lavater calls the 'homogeneity' of the face. Drawing, c. 1791.
  • A man whose face expresses (according to the study of physiognomy) austerity blended with wit and rhetorical powers. Engraving by Barlow, 19th century.
  • New physiognomy, or, Signs of character as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in "the human face divine" / by Samuel R. Wells...with more than one thousand illustrations.
  • 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.
  • Designs showing the lower half of the face in various physiognomies and actions. Engraving after C. Le Brun.
  • Designs showing the lower half of the face in various physiognomies and actions. Engraving after C. Le Brun.
  • Chiromance et physiognomie par le regard des membres de lhomme ... Plus dudit: La diffinition des faces des signes. Reigles astronomiques du iugement des maladies. Lastrologie naturelle. La congnoissance [sic] de la complexion des hommes selon la domination des planettes / Le tout mis en françois par Antoine du Moulin.
  • Four faces: a European, a Mongolian, an Ethiopian, and a profile of Samuel Johnson; three frontal silhouettes; three skulls of the same races seen from above (in the order European, Ethiopian and Mongolian). Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1824.
  • A young man in caricature, the features of his face bunched up into a small area. Engraving by B. Bossi, 1776, after himself.
  • Head of a man endowed, according to Lavater, with the capacity for profound thought. Drawing, c. 1792.
  • Frontispiece to an English edition of Charles Le Brun's 'Expressions of the passions of the soul' (left); a face expressing attention. Engraving, c. 1760, after C. Le Brun.
  • Head of an old man with a bandage laced through his hollow eye-sockets. Engraving by B. Bossi, 1776.
  • A man in profile; a physiognomic caricature. Engraving by B. Bossi, 1775, after himself.
  • Ten faces expressing the human passions. Engraving by Barlow after C. Le Brun.
  • 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 an old woman. Stipple engraving.
  • Four heads of men who each exhibit one of the four temperaments: (clockwise from top left) lymphatic, sanguine, bilious, and nervous. Engraving by W. Johnson and A.K. Johnson, early 19th century.
  • A profile expressing a state of attention. Crayon manner print by W. Hebert, c. 1770, after C. Le Brun.
  • Four heads of men who each exhibit one of the four temperaments: (clockwise from top left) lymphatic, sanguine, bilious, and nervous. Engraving by W. Johnson and A.K. Johnson, early 19th century.
  • A monument supported by crossed porte-crayons and surmounted by the head of an angel: frontispiece to the depictions of the passions. 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 an old man. Stipple engraving.
  • Head of an old man. Stipple engraving.
  • A man whose profile expresses compassion. Crayon manner print by W. Hebert, c. 1770, after C. Le Brun.
  • Ten faces expressing the human passions. Engraving by Barlow after C. Le Brun.
  • Jean Conradin Heidegger, Bürgermeister of Zurich, on his death-bed. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • The head of a man from four different angles. Drawing, c. 1794.
  • A female face expressing admiration. Engraving by M. Engelbrecht (?), 1732, after C. Le Brun.
  • Outlines of faces: the left-hand pair expressing good judgment, the right-hand pair weakness of mind. Drawing, c. 1789.