The profile of a businessman, according to Lavater. Drawing, c. 1793.

Date:
c. 1793
Reference:
31519i
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Description

Lavater comments that even though he has never seen the faces shown here and on frame no. 9519R (engravings of which were both published on the same page), and does not know their names, he can immediately tell them to be businessmen. The physiognomy shown here, however, is also susceptible to sensual properties

Publication/Creation

[London], c. 1793.

Physical description

1 drawing : pencil

Reference

Wellcome Collection 31519i

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

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