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Pride and vanity

Images

  • An opinionated child ignores his parents; representing the faculty of obstinacy in phrenology. Steel engraving, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • Three heads showing phrenological traits associated with insanity: a mentally defective person, a mad woman, and the murderer P.F. Lacenaire. Lithograph by C. Picard, 1842, after J.P. Thenot.
  • Men vainly seeking alchemical 'white' (mercurial) water in the ground and in trees. Coloured etching after etching, ca. 17th century.
  • A man sitting erect on a chair; representing pride as a type of the 'sentiment' of self esteem, a phrenological 'faculty'. Steel engraving by C. Devrits, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • A man harrassed by personifications of greed, guilt, credulity, jealousy, sadness and pride. Engraving by P. Galle, ca 1563.
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Catalogue

    • Pictures

    The figure of a man divided in two parts: a skeleton and a well-dressed gentleman. Engraving by V. Green, 1769, after himself.

    Green, Valentine, 1739-1813. | Date: 10 August 1769 | Reference: 26236i
    • Books

    Mirror, mirror : the uses and abuses of self-love / Simon Blackburn.

    Blackburn, Simon, 1944- | Date: 2014
    • Pictures

    A bold army officer competes with a modest civilian for the affections of a bashful young woman. Mezzotint by W.O. Geller, 1797, after S. Jones.

    Jones, S.E. (Artist) | Date: 1797 | Reference: 3136778i
    • Books

    Understanding collective pride and group identity : new directions in emotion theory, research and practice / edited by Gavin Brent Sullivan.

    | Date: 2014
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Le Chevalier Michel Descazeaux du Halley, an eccentric. Soft-ground etching.

    | Date: 20 July 1772 | Reference: 254i
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