A creature undergoing physiognomic metamorphosis from a frog into an ideal head of Apollo. Coloured drawing by J.C. Lavater, 179-.

1 drawing : pencil, with watercolour ; image 8 x 6.6 cm

Bears number in Lavater's hand: 10

One of seven works in this series in the Wellcome Library

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

Wellcome Collection 34716i

Baur (op. cit.) suggests that the design (which in its full version includes 24 stages), 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