A fashionable lecturer demonstrates the art of physiognomy through reference to busts. Etching, 1765.

Date:
1765
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34515i
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Images from top left across: 1. Female figures representing the liberal arts. 2. A cenotaph marked "the gambler's monument". 3. Two knights around a cenotaph upon which stands a female figure: "Statue of flattery". 4. A coat of arms containing three ducks: "Quack doctors arms". 5. Empty coat of arms: "Nobodys arms". 6. "Coat of arms containing a torso: "Somebodys arms". 7. A funeral cortège: "the gamblers funeral". 8. Coat of arms with disembodied arms and legs: "Anybodys arms". 9. Coat of arms with four hands grasping for a bag of money: "Everybodys arms". The two collections of busts are numbered. The dark, bald bust that the demonstrator is pointing to is lettered "G.R." No. 4 has a ram's horns adorning his head

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London : The universal museum and complete magazine, 1765.

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1 print : etching

Lettering

A representation of the several humerous heads, exhibited in the lecture on heads etched in caricatura. Engraved for the Universal Museum & Complete Mag ...

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Wellcome Collection 34515i

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