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Goethes Anteil an Lavaters Physiognomischen Fragmenten / von Eduard von der Hellen.

Eduard von der Hellen, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine · 1888 · Frankfurt A.M. : Rütten & Loening, 1888. · 33 pictures

A scholarly German study from 1888 by Eduard von der Hellen, published in Frankfurt by Rütten & Loening, examining Goethe's part in Lavater's physiognomic writings, with the illustrations drawn from the physiognomic tradition of character reading through faces. The pictures are outline profile portraits, classical busts, a black silhouette and a character head with heavy brows and a grimacing mouth, offering a designer clear models of profile silhouettes, oval vignette framing and expressive caricature line work.

Physiognomy · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Johann Kaspar Lavater

Wellcome Collection · Public Domain Mark 1.0 (public domain) · More from this library