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Wit and humor

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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 man whose face expresses (according to the study of physiognomy) austerity blended with wit and rhetorical powers. Engraving by Barlow, 19th century.
  • A profile evaluated by Lavater as harsh and displeasing, yet with traces of wit in the eyes. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • A wife, her physiognomy expressing good temper and humour according to Lavater. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • 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.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    An address on the psychology of joking / delivered at the opening of the Medical Society of London, October 1887 by [John Hughlings Jackson].

    Jackson, J. Hughlings (John Hughlings), 1835-1911. | Date: 1932
    • Videos

    Rebel physician : Nicholas Culpeper's fight for medical freedom.

    | Date: 2008
    • Books

    Yi lin xiaohua / [compiled by] Zhou Changfa, Ma Boying.

    | Date: 1986
    • Books
    • Online

    A modern dissertation on a certain necessary piece of household furniture.

    | Date: 1752
    • Pictures

    Left eyes of two men. Drawing, c. 1794.

    | Date: 1794? | Reference: 30798i
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