Fifteen contours of foreheads. Drawing, c. 1789.

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1789?
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29347i
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Fifteen contours of foreheads. Drawing, c. 1789. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Lavater measures the deviation of the foreheads from the perpendicular. However, "nature rejects continued perpendiculars". The top row of heads are "scrutinizing heads; anti poetic". The second level express caprice; the third level "compose a medley of every kind of irregularity"

Lavater includes repetitions of these designs in a slightly different context over pages 317-322 of vol. III,ii. (see frame no. 9466R)

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[London], 1789?

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1 drawing : pencil

Notes

One drawing in a group of drawings apparently prepared under the supervision of Thomas Holloway (1748-1827) for the English edition of J.C. Lavater, Essays on physiognomy, trans. Henry Hunter, London 1789-1798

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Wellcome Collection 29347i

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