Head of a woman expressing, according to Lavater, good sense and fidelity. Drawing, c. 1794.

Date:
1794?
Reference:
30219i
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Head of a woman expressing, according to Lavater, good sense and fidelity. Drawing, c. 1794. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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In the text, Lavater writes that this portrait is "more pleasing [than the one shown on frame no. 9459L], better calculated to inspire love". She has "a great fund of good sense, and a fidelity not to be shaken ... The attitude here is that of attentive love, superior to design and intrigue, and which nothing can direct from its attachment"

Publication/Creation

[London], 1794?

Physical description

1 drawing : pencil

Notes

One drawing in a group of drawings apparently prepared under the supervision of Thomas Holloway (1748-1827) for the English edition of J.C. Lavater, Essays on physiognomy, trans. Henry Hunter, London 1789-1798

Reference

Wellcome Collection 30219i

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"Holloway direxit" inscribed on published engraving

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