Seven portraits of women, compared for their beauty and prudence. Drawing, c. 1789.

Date:
c. 1789
Reference:
28698i
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Seven portraits of women, compared for their beauty and prudence. Drawing, c. 1789. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The central woman represents the ideal; the next but one on the right is in turn, in a way that strikes us "antecedent to all reasoning", better than the next one along. On the left, the middle woman shows more prudence in her physiognomy than the other two

Publication/Creation

[London], c. 1789.

Physical description

1 drawing : pencil

Reference

Wellcome Collection 28698i

Creator/production credits

Engraving in the book attributed to T. Trotter

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