Physiognomy Collection

Tableau synoptic des traits physionomiques: pour servir a l etude du " portrait parle", ca. 1909

Three nose types, 17th century
Three nose types. 17th-century artwork comparing three noses in profile: small, medium and large. This artwork was published in a study of physiognomy

Resemblance of animals and their owners
Animals who resemble their owners - or vice versa -- a sheep and a cat

Illustration from The Anatomy of the Horse, including a particular description of the bones
XYC237801 Illustration from The Anatomy of the Horse, including a particular description of the bones, cartilages, muscles...in eighteen tables, printed by J

1: Germanic skull with all the marks of a European head. 2: African skull
533707 1: Germanic skull with all the marks of a European head. 2: African skull: The arching of the forehead considered separately is by no means so stupid as the other parts evidently appear to be

Physiognomy (litho)
8641364 Physiognomy (litho) by American School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Physiognomy. Illustration for Heads and Faces)

Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss writer and physiognomist (engraving)
8626171 Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss writer and physiognomist (engraving) by Lips, Johann Heinrich (1758-1817); Private Collection; (add.info.: Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801)

Physiognomic types (coloured engraving)
8655692 Physiognomic types (coloured engraving) by French School, (19th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Physiognomic types)

Attempt to exorcise evil spirits possessing patient in San Spirito Hospital, Rome, 1792 (engraving)
536023 Attempt to exorcise evil spirits possessing patient in San Spirito Hospital, Rome, 1792 (engraving); (add.info.: Attempt to exorcise evil spirits possessing patient in San Spirito Hospital)

Embarcadère du chemin de Bruxelles, 1852. Creator: Honore Daumier
Embarcadere du chemin de Bruxelles, 1852. Vue prise dans un jour de liquidation difficile a la Bourse. (Embarking for Brussels - The scene [at the railway station] on a difficult liquidation day)

Physionomies de spectateurs de la Porte St-Martin... 1852. Creator: Honore Daumier
Physionomies de spectateurs de la Porte St-Martin... 1852. Physionomies de spectateurs de la Porte-St.-Martin pendant une represantation de Richard III

Andromaque, 1851. Creator: Honore Daumier
Andromaque, 1851. "J'ai vu trancher les jours de ma famille entiere" "Et mon epoux traine sur la poussiere!". "I saw the lives of my entire family cut short"

Mon char, mes javelots...(Phèdre), 1841. Creator: Honore Daumier
Mon char, mes javelots...(Phedre), 1841. My chariot, my javelins...From Physionomies tragico-classiques (Physiognomy of the Characters of Classical Tragedy); Periodical: Le Charivari, 15 November 1841

Le Chemin de fer de Lyon. Embarcadère.. 1852. Creator: Honore Daumier
Le Chemin de fer de Lyon. Embarcadere.. 1852. Le Chemin de fer de Lyon. Embarcadere special des nourrices de Bourgogne. (The railway station at Lyon. Special platform for Burgundy wet-nurses)

Le jour n'est pas plus pur.. 1841. Creator: Honore Daumier
Le jour n'est pas plus pur.. 1841. The day is not purer than the depths of my heart. Series: Physionomies tragico-classiques (Physiognomy of the Characters of Classical Tragedy); Periodical

Sortez!...(Bajazet), 1841. Creator: Honore Daumier
Sortez!...(Bajazet), 1841. Go away! From Physionomies tragico-classiques (Physiognomy of the Characters of Classical Tragedy)

Je pars plus amoureux que...jamais... 1841. Creator: Honore Daumier
Je pars plus amoureux que...jamais... 1841. I leave more in love than...ever. From Physionomies tragico-classiques (Physiognomy of the Characters of Classical Tragedy)

Pour qui sont ces Serpents... 1841. Creator: Honore Daumier
Pour qui sont ces Serpents... 1841. Who are these Snakes for? From Physionomies tragico-classiques (Physiognomy of the Characters of Classical Tragedy)

Le jour n'est pas plus pur que le fond de mon coeur. (Phedre), 1841. Creator: Honore Daumier
Le jour n'est pas plus pur que le fond de mon coeur. (Phedre), 1841. The day is not purer than the depths of my heart

Oedipe, 1851. Creator: Honore Daumier
Oedipe, 1851. Moi-meme en le percant, je sentis dans mon ame, Tout vainqueur que j'etais...vous fremissez, madame!'

Hamlet, 1851. Creator: Honore Daumier
Hamlet, 1851. "Prenez cette urne et jurez-moi sur elle..."Non ta mere, mon fils, ne fut point criminelle..."L'osez-vous, je vous crois!"

Je suis jeune, il est vrai, mais aux âmes bien neés...(Le Cid), 1841. Creator: Honore Daumier
Je suis jeune, il est vrai, mais aux ames bien nees. La valeur n'attend pas le nombre des annees! (Le Cid), 1841. I am young, it is true, but with a well-born soul

Nourri dans le sérail, j'en connais les détours (Bajaset), 1841. Creator: Honore Daumier
Nourri dans le serail, j'en connais les detours (Bajaset), 1841. Nourished in the seraglio, I know the twists and turns

Rodrigue as-tu du coeur? (Le Cid), 1841. Creator: Honore Daumier
Rodrigue as-tu du coeur? (Le Cid), 1841. Don Diego asks his son Rodrigo do you have heart?'. From Physionomies tragico-classiques (Physiognomy of the Characters of Classical Tragedy)

Train de plaisir de Paris à St-Germain... 1852. Creator: Honore Daumier
Train de plaisir de Paris a St-Germain... 1852. Train de plaisir de Paris a St-Germain - Wagon de deuxieme classe. Excursion train from Paris to St-Germain: Second class carriage

Un échantillon de ce qu'on appèle quelquefois les Beaux de Paris, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Un echantillon de ce qu'on appele quelquefois les Beaux de Paris, 19th century. Parisians. A specimen of what one might call the handsome men of Paris

Les vendanges a Argenteuil, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Les vendanges a Argenteuil, 19th century. English visitors at the grape harvest, looking at the behinds of the pickers and speaking heavily-accented French

Sketches of Male Heads (recto); Two Old Women (verso), n.d. Creator: Thomas Patch
Sketches of Male Heads (recto); Two Old Women (verso), n.d

Man's head with fur hat, undated. (c1860s) Creator: Louis Toussaint
Man's head with fur hat, undated. (c1860s)

Man's head with fur hat, undated. (c1860s) Creator: Louis Toussaint
Man's head with fur hat, undated. (c1860s)

Passions from Physiognomy
Passions from Johann Caspar Lavaters Physiognomy. Sadness, Weeping, Compassion, Scorn, Horror, Terror or Fright, Anger, Hatred or Jealousy and Despair

Comparison of British & German skull shapes, WW1
Long-head versus short-head: Opposite types of humanity which are fighting for opposite ideals. A diagram to demonstrate the inherent differences in skull shapes between the British

The Different Human Races, from Natural History of the Animal Kingdom
CHT164094 The Different Human Races, from Natural History of the Animal Kingdom by Gotthelf Heinrich von Schubert (1780-1860), 1861 (colour engraving) by German School

Physiognomy, classification of types (litho)
6013759 Physiognomy, classification of types (litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Physiognomy, classification of types)

Title-page to The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton, 1628 (engraving)
XJF328386 Title-page to The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton, 1628 (engraving) by Le Blon, Christian (c.1600-65); Private Collection; (add.info)

Fizzyognomy (engraving)
7177974 Fizzyognomy (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Fizzyognomy. Illustration for The Comic Annual by Thomas Hood)

Judas Iscariot (engraving)
979861 Judas Iscariot (engraving) by English School, (18th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ. Engraved by John Barlow)

The Great Sforzia (engraving)
979857 The Great Sforzia (engraving) by English School, (18th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Great Sforzia, a portrait of a bearded man in profile. Engraved by John Barlow)

Satan (engraving)
979841 Satan (engraving) by Fuseli, Henry (Fussli, Johann Heinrich) (1741-1825) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Satan. Drawn by Henry Fuseli, engraved by John Barlow)

Gentleness and benignity (engraving)
979836 Gentleness and benignity (engraving) by Fuseli, Henry (Fussli, Johann Heinrich) (1741-1825) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Gentleness and benignity)

Heads, 1833-39 (coloured engraving)
999558 Heads, 1833-39 (coloured engraving) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: A Dictionnaire pittoresque d histoire naturelle et des phenomAnes de la natureA, 1833-39)

Similarities between the head of a Goat and a Man, from L
XJF465158 Similarities between the head of a Goat and a Man, from L Art de Connaitre les Hommes, vol. 10 by Johann Lavater, engraved by Pierre Nicolas Ransonnette

Frontispiece and Titlepage of "The Conjurors Magazine", pub. 1792 (litho)
1219466 Frontispiece and Titlepage of " The Conjurors Magazine", pub. 1792 (litho) by English School, (18th century); Private Collection; The Stapleton Collection; English, out of copyright

Third Anatomical Table, from The Anatomy of the Horse (engraving)
BBC211040 Third Anatomical Table, from The Anatomy of the Horse (engraving) by Stubbs, George (1724-1806); Royal Academy of Arts Library, London, UK; English, out of copyright

Physiognomical studies, from Mecanisme de la Physionomie humaine ou analyse
CHT207783 Physiognomical studies, from Mecanisme de la Physionomie humaine ou analyse electrophysiologique des passions by Duchenne de Boulogne, published 1876

Physiognomical examination of a woman with a cradle, from
CHT207809 Physiognomical examination of a woman with a cradle, from Mecanisme de la Physionomie humaine ou analyse electrophysiologique des passions by Duchenne de Boulogne, published 1876

Passions from Physiognomy, 1829 (engraving)
5893741 Passions from Physiognomy, 1829 (engraving) by Smellie, William (1697-1763); (add.info.: Passions from Johann Caspar Lavaters Physiognomy)

Volta Faradic Apparatus used by Guillaume Benjamin Duchenne de Boulogne (1806-75
CHT207820 Volta Faradic Apparatus used by Guillaume Benjamin Duchenne de Boulogne (1806-75) illustration from Mecanisme de la Physionomie humaine ou analyse electrophysiologique des passions by

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"Exploring the Intriguing World of Physiognomy: Unveiling the Secrets Behind Facial Features" Tableau synoptic des traits physionomiques: pour servir a l etude du " - Delving into the 17th-century study of physiognomy, this tableau presents an intricate analysis of facial traits and their significance. Resemblance of animals and their owners - Discovering the uncanny resemblance between humans and animals through physiognomy, unraveling intriguing connections between individuals and their animal counterparts. Illustration from The Anatomy of the Horse, including a particular description of the bones - Examining how physiognomy extends beyond human features to encompass other creatures like horses, highlighting detailed bone structures for comprehensive understanding. Comparison of British & German skull shapes, WW1 - During World War I, exploring how physiognomic studies were utilized to compare skull shapes among different nationalities, shedding light on potential racial differences. Passions from Physiognomy - Unraveling emotions through facial expressions in physiognomic studies. Analyzing how our faces reveal our innermost feelings and passions with remarkable accuracy. The Different Human Races, from Natural History of the Animal Kingdom' - Investigating diverse human races through a natural history lens. Understanding how physical characteristics vary across different ethnic groups using principles derived from animal kingdom observations. Costumes of high-ranking Persian men and women - Exploring cultural aspects intertwined with physiognomy by examining traditional Persian costumes worn by influential men and women. How clothing choices reflect societal roles based on facial features? Mongol men and women, physiognomy of a Mongol – Diving into Mongolian culture through studying distinct physical attributes specific to Mongol individuals. Understanding unique characteristics that define this fascinating group's identity. Look What a Pretty Face.