The physiognomy of mental diseases / by Sir Alexander Morison.
The physiognomy of mental diseases, published in London in 1840 by the physician Alexander Morison, is a medical treatise that uses drawn portraits of patients to illustrate facial expressions linked to mental illness. The pictures are soft pencil sketches of seated or half-length figures, in women's bonnets and men's open collars, with varied angles and expressions. A designer might draw on their loose, observational line and the way wide-eyed or sidelong faces convey mood through minimal shading.
