A physiognomy expressing religious veneration. Drawing, c. 1789, after C. Le Brun.

  • Le Brun, Charles, 1619-1690.
Date:
c. 1789
Reference:
29011i
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Publication/Creation

[London], c. 1789.

Physical description

1 drawing : graphite

Contributors

Lettering

In the text, Lavater comments that the physiognomy shows religious veneration, "but the forehead is too elevated, the top of the nose too blunt ... to permit the expression of the whole to reach the sublime"

Reference

Wellcome Collection 29011i

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