A married couple who have begun physically to resemble each other. Drawing, c. 1794.

[London], 1794?

1 drawing : pencil

Lavater tells the story of a hypochondriacal man and his wife, who would watch his every movement. "She carefully studied, and devoured, if I may use the expression, with an eager interest, every trait, every variation, every shade which seemed to presage the diminution or increase of the malady ... The affecting spectacle, continually before her eyes, changed her physionomy, and it ended in a complete assimilation of the wife to the husband"

Wellcome Collection 30201i