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  • Essays on physiognomy; for the promotion of the knowledge and the love of mankind / Written in the German language by John Caspar Lavater, and translated [from the German] into English by Thomas Holcroft.
  • Essays on physiognomy : designed to promote the knowledge and the love of mankind / Written in the German language by John Caspar Lavater, and translated into English by Thomas Holcroft. To which are added, one hundred physiognomonical rules, a posthumous work by Mr. Lavater; and memoirs of the life of the author, compiled principally from the life of Lavater, by G. Gessner.
  • Essays on physiognomy : designed to promote the knowledge and the love of mankind / Written in the German language by John Caspar Lavater, and translated into English by Thomas Holcroft. To which are added, one hundred physiognomonical rules, a posthumous work by Mr. Lavater; and memoirs of the life of the author, compiled principally from the life of Lavater, by G. Gessner.
  • Essays on physiognomy : designed to promote the knowledge and the love of mankind / Written in the German language by John Caspar Lavater, and translated into English by Thomas Holcroft. To which are added, one hundred physiognomonical rules, a posthumous work by Mr. Lavater; and memoirs of the life of the author, compiled principally from the life of Lavater, by G. Gessner.
  • Plate illustrating the process of making silhouettes.
  • A woman covers her nudity; but in vain, because her facial features, marked with numbered dots, allow us to interpret the hidden contours and shapes of her body (according a method attributed to Lavater). Coloured lithograph.
  • A man whose physiognomy expresses, according to Lavater, openness of mind, taste, a happy memory, and wit. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Death mask of Jean Conradin Heidegger, Bürgermeister of Zurich. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • A man whose face expresses (according to the study of physiognomy) austerity blended with wit and rhetorical powers. Engraving by Barlow, 19th century.
  • A female goddess with a castle on her head (representing an Earth goddess or Geometry) holds up a tablet engraved with faces from which a man copies; two angels and a swan sit with them in the clouds. Engraving by T. Holloway, 1810.
  • A woman, the physiognomy of whom expresses attention excited by desire. Drawing, c. 1794.
  • Head of a boy. Drawing, c. 1794.
  • Guido Reni: portrait. Drawing, c. 1793.
  • Outlines of faces: the left-hand pair expressing good judgment, the right-hand pair weakness of mind. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • The head of Hercules. Drawing, c. 1792.
  • Right profile of a boy exemplifying ancient Greek male beauty. Drawing, c. 1791.
  • Thirteen physiognomies. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • An eye; according to Lavater, belonging to a promising young man. Drawing, c. 1794.
  • Profile of a benign looking woman exemplifying Lavater's principle of the homogeneity of the face. Drawing, c. 1791.
  • Nine mouths. Drawing, c. 1793.
  • Heads of leopards, lions, and a sheep. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • A man whose face expresses, according to Lavater, a great capacity for discernment. Drawing, c. 1794.
  • Sixteen portraits of classical poets and thinkers. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Progression of a man through the ages of fifty to a hundred. Engraving, c. 1794.
  • Statues of an apostle and Christ (?). Drawing, c. 1793.
  • A bust showing a phlegmatic-sanguine temperament. Drawing, c. 1792.
  • The head of a frog, in the fourth stage of a physiognomic metamorphosis into an ideal head of Apollo. Coloured drawing by J.C. Lavater, 179-.
  • Six heads of dogs. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Eyes expressing an imperious and passionate character, according to Lavater. Drawing, c. 1794.
  • A man with a nose indicating reflectiveness (according to Lavater). Drawing, c. 1794.