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Sixteen portraits of classical poets and thinkers. Drawing, c. 1789.

A man whose face expresses (according to the study of physiognomy) austerity blended with wit and rhetorical powers. Engraving by Barlow, 19th century.

Thomas Henry Huxley : communicating for science / J. Vernon Jensen.

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Thomas Henry Huxley : communicating for science / J. Vernon Jensen.

A man whose face expresses (according to the study of physiognomy) austerity blended with wit and rhetorical powers. Engraving by Barlow, 19th century.

Sixteen portraits of classical poets and thinkers. Drawing, c. 1789.