Physiognomy illustrated ; or, Nature's revelations of character : a description of the mental, moral, and volitive dispositions of mankind, as manifested in the human form and countenance
A physiognomy manual by Joseph Simms, published in New York in 1891, aimed at general readers who wanted to judge character from faces and heads. Its pictures are small wood-engraved portraits of men in profile and three-quarter views, with hatched shading that shows how line can model skin, hair and features. A designer could take from them the hatching and contour work used for character studies of older and younger men.
