A head divided into thirty seven compartments, each containing an image representing a phrenological faculty. Wood engraving, after O.S. Fowler, c. 1840.

1 print : wood engraving

Names of the organs. Domestic group. 1. Amativeness. A. Conjugality. 2. Parental love. 3. Friendship. 4. Inhabitiveness. 5. Continuity ... Lettering continues: "Selfish propensities. E. Vitativeness. 6. Combativeness. 7. Destructiveness. 8. Alimentativeness. 9. Acquisitiveness. 10. Secretiveness. 11. Cautiousness. Aspiring and governing organs. 12. Approbativeness. 13. Self-Esteem. 14. Firmness. Moral sentiments. 15. Conscientiousness. 16. Hope. 17. Spirituality. 18. Veneration. 19. Benevolence. Perfective qualities. 20. Constructiveness. 21. Ideality. B. Sublimity. 22. Imitation. D. Agreeableness. 23. Mirthfulness. Perceptive faculties. 24. Individuality. 25. Form. 26. Size. 27. Weight. 28. Color. 29. Order. 30. Calculation. 31. Locality. Literary faculties. 32. Eventuality. 33. Time. 34. Tune. 35. Language. Reasoning faculties. 36. Causality. 37. Comparison. C. Human nature"

The design seems to originate with one of the Fowlers (probably Orson Squire Fowler), a family of popular phrenologists operating in the United States in the last half of the nineteenth century

Wellcome Collection 27714i

Exhibited in “The Brain in Art & Science” at Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany, 28 January – 28 June 2022