Outlines and designs of foreheads, showing their wrinkles and contours. Drawing, c. 1794.

Date:
1794?
Reference:
30640i
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The top eight drawings show various configurations of wrinkles on foreheads. Lavater reminds us in the text accompanying the published engraving of his principle of 'homogeneity': each feature expresses the form of the whole. The outlines of foreheads are repetitions from volume II,i., p. 236 (see frame no. 9401L); Lavater also repeats in the text his assertion that straight lines cannot be found in nature. All the lines here show impossible foreheads; the drawing of the head in the centre is intended to show a real profile

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[London], 1794?

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1 drawing : pencil

Reference

Wellcome Collection 30640i

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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