How to read heads and faces / by James Coates.

  • Coates, James, 1843-1933.
Date:
[1937?]
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: How to read heads and faces / by James Coates. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    47/136 (page 43)
    unusual in the dockland areas of this country. Of course, men who have been keen boxers or rugger players often display noses not un¬ like the one shown in the illustration, but in their case, the shape is acquired and is not natural. Fig. 42 is not a particularly attractive shape, yet it indicates a mind that is fertile and brilliant. The owner is for ever thinking of new ideas and of practical ways of carrying them out. He ought to get on in the world through sheer ability. More¬ over, he has a free and easy manner and a nice nature. Fig. 43 must not be confused with Fig. 40. The two point to people of very different qualities. In Fig. 43, the tip is less acute and the junction of nose and forehead shows a very real depression which is quite absent in Fig. 40. In the present case, we have a refined, scholarly nature, a clear brain and evidence that the owner is meant to get on in the world. Fig. 44 is the nose of a person who has no high ideals. He will rush in where angels fear to tread and make all sorts of silly blunders. He will jump on people’s corns and never understand a