The juvenile Lavater;
The Juvenile Lavater is a physiognomy primer published in London in 1812 by A.K. Newman and co, attributed to George Brewer, meant for young readers learning to read character from facial expression. Its engravings of male heads in profile and three-quarter view, with dense hatched shading on warm, aged paper, show a range of moods from calm to anger and grief. A designer could draw on the expressive hatching and the mid-tone engraved curls and skin modelling as a reference for character sketches or period-styled portraiture.
