Physiognomy; or, the corresponding analogy between the conformation of the features and the ruling passions of the mind / translated from the original work of J. C. Lavater by Samuel Shaw Esq. Editor of the Abridgement of Bruce's Travels.
A 1792 London translation of Johann Kaspar Lavater's treatise on physiognomy, rendered into English by Samuel Shaw and published by H.D. Symonds for a general readership interested in reading character from facial features. The plates are rows of numbered profile heads, drawn in fine pen and ink inside oval frames with caption labels beneath each, showing exaggerated expressions and types such as melancholic, sanguine and phlegmatic faces. A designer might take the oval-framed grid layout and the crisp hatched linework for character studies, caricature-like portraits and typological sketches.
