Fifteen contours of foreheads. Drawing, c. 1789.

Lavater measures the deviation of the foreheads from the perpendicular. However, "nature rejects continued perpendiculars". The top row of heads are "scrutinizing heads; anti poetic". The second level express caprice; the third level "compose a medley of every kind of irregularity"

Lavater includes repetitions of these designs in a slightly different context over pages 317-322 of vol. III,ii. (see frame no. 9466R)

[London], 1789?

1 drawing : pencil

Wellcome Collection 29347i

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