La physiognomonie, ou l'art de connaître les hommes d'après les traits de leur physionomie, leurs rupports avec les divers animaux, leur penchans. ... / Lavater.
A French physiognomy treatise by Johann Kaspar Lavater, adapted by Henri Bachrach and François Fertiault and published in Paris in 1841 for a general reading public interested in judging character from faces. Its plates show groups of profile heads, silhouettes and sketched portraits of men in wigs, cravats and heavy coats, numbered and arranged on the page like a specimen sheet. A designer could take the strict profile framing, the clustered arrangement of varied character types, and the soft pencil or engraved shading for portrait studies.
