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Phrenological diagrams of the skull and brain, with three portraits: Laurence Sterne, a mathematician, and Shakespeare; exemplifying the faculties of wit, number and imagination respectively. Engraving by H. Sawyer after W. Byam, 1818.

A phrenologist at work on a girl, surrounded by members of her family. Engraving by C. Rolls after E. Sharpe, c. 1830.

Phrenological properties of drawing: colour, form, space, order. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826.

Human skull: frontal view. Lithograph, c. 1835.

The death-mask of Maria Manning, the murderer: three views. Lithograph by John Lane.

Johann Caspar Spurzheim. Lithograph by J.H. Bufford after A. Fisher.

Joseph Millot Severn, a British phrenologist, examining a boy. Colour process print, c. 1929.

An opinionated child ignores his parents; representing the faculty of obstinacy in phrenology. Steel engraving, 1847, after H. Bruyères.

Child's head with large temporal lobes and depressed frontal lobe. Drawing, c. 1900.

Members of the British Association playing at phrenology on board a ship on its way to South Africa. Photograph by J.T. Bottomley, 1905.

A phrenologist comparing his own head with a phrenological bust. Oil painting by Albert W. Holden.

Head of "a backward boy" divided into four cerebral lobes: profile. Ink drawing with watercolour, c. 1900.

Phrenology, and how to use it in analyzing character.

Traité sur les phrénopathies, ou, Doctrine nouvelle des maladies mentales, bases sur des observations pratiques et statistiques, et l'etude des causes, de la nature, des symptomes, du pronostic, du diagnostic et du traitement de ces affections  / par J. Guislain.

L'arte de conoscere gli uomini : il piccolo Lavater e Dottor Gall / per Alessandro David ; edizione illustrata con vignette.

A system of phrenology.

Handbuch der Phrenologie.

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Phrenology

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Phrenology, and how to use it in analyzing character.

Traité sur les phrénopathies, ou, Doctrine nouvelle des maladies mentales, bases sur des observations pratiques et statistiques, et l'etude des causes, de la nature, des symptomes, du pronostic, du diagnostic et du traitement de ces affections / par J. Guislain.

L'arte de conoscere gli uomini : il piccolo Lavater e Dottor Gall / per Alessandro David ; edizione illustrata con vignette.

A system of phrenology.

Handbuch der Phrenologie.

Phrenology

Images from the collections

Images about Phrenology

Works from the collections

Phrenology, and how to use it in analyzing character.

Traité sur les phrénopathies, ou, Doctrine nouvelle des maladies mentales, bases sur des observations pratiques et statistiques, et l'etude des causes, de la nature, des symptomes, du pronostic, du diagnostic et du traitement de ces affections / par J. Guislain.

L'arte de conoscere gli uomini : il piccolo Lavater e Dottor Gall / per Alessandro David ; edizione illustrata con vignette.

A system of phrenology.

Handbuch der Phrenologie.

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