A face void of all discernible connection with temperament or expression. Drawing, c. 1792.

Appears in the book in a chapter on the four temperaments

Lavater comments that "there are physiognomies one is tempted to denominate petrified [last word in italics]. Detached from society, they are susceptible of nothing, and with difficulty communicate themselves to others. Firm and unshaken, persons of this sort are neither good nor bad, neither sensible nor stupid; they may be said to have no temperament. They are more common in art than in life. You find them especially in copies and imitations, made after the antique. ... Everything here is evidently fictitious, half nature, half art; I know not what to make of it"

[London], 1792?

1 drawing : pencil

Published engraving by Grignion

Wellcome Collection 29975i