Five profiles exhibited for their noses. Drawing, c. 1794.

Date:
1794?
Reference:
30947i
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In the published text Lavater makes a comparison between the top three profiles as to their virtues. The bottom two, however, "approach to folly"; wherever an arch of the nose is exaggerated or lengthened, there can be found mental derangement

Publication/Creation

[London], 1794?

Physical description

1 drawing : pencil

Reference

Wellcome Collection 30947i

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