Heads of hares, a goat, a boar, and an ass. Drawing, c. 1789.

In applying the study of physiognomy to the animal world, Lavater asserts a "proportional difference of force and form. ... From the insect invisible to the naked eye, up to the elephant, is not the gradation of internal and external character perpetually in exact relation?" (vol. II.i. p. 99)

Lavater comments on the expression by the creatures' physiognomies of characteristics of lasciviousness, stupidity, and timorous gluttony

[London], 1789?

1 drawing : pencil

Wellcome Collection 29142i