The head of an animal, in the sixth stage of a physiognomic metamorphosis from a frog to an ideal head of Apollo. Coloured drawing by J.C. Lavater, 179-.

1 drawing : pencil, with watercolour ; image 8.1 x 6.5 cm

Bears number in Lavater's hand: 6

One in seven works in this series in the Wellcome Library

Otto Baur, Bestiarium humanum, Munich 1974, pp. 56-7

Wellcome Collection 34714i

Baur (op. cit.) suggests that the design, which is a reworking of a series of 12 frontal physiognomies in the 1778 publication of the 'Fragmente' is much influenced by Petrus Camper's similar designs made in the intervening years