Samuel Clarke: portrait. Drawing, c. 1794.

Published engraving contained in a chapter on eyes, in a subsection on eyebrows. The section begins: "If such an attempt were made to form a judgement of whole nations, on such or such a separate part of the face, the English would obtain the preference in respect of eyebrows. With them the trait always characterises the thinker, and I risk nothing when I add, that the fertile spirit of the French usually manifests itself in the shape of the nose"

Lavater goes on to aver that "had I seen nothing of the following vignette of Samuel Clarke, but the eyebrows only - and in this copy they are very indifferently drawn - I should not doubt for a single moment about the majestic form of the forehead and nose which they necessarily suppose"

[London], c. 1794.

1 drawing : pencil, with wash

The Rev.d Samuel Clarke D.D.

T. Holloway credited with published engraving

Wellcome Collection 30905i