Essai Sur La Physiognomonie Destiné, A faire Connoître l'Homme & à le faire Aimer: Essai Sur La Physiognomie, Destiné A faire Connoitre l'homme et à le faire Aimer; Quatrieme Partie
Lavater's Essai sur la physiognomonie, fourth part, published in French in 1803 with plates credited to Lavater, van Karnebeek, van Cleef and van Teeckelenburgh, drawn to teach readers to judge character from facial profiles. The framed plates show single profile outlines in pen and ink, numbered in the corners, with a few adding measuring lines and paired nose shapes. A designer might take the clean outline contours, the thin hairline strokes, and the ruled borders as a restrained model for diagrammatic studies.
