Three perspectives of a skull sectioned and labelled according to an unorthodox system of phrenology. Pen drawing, 18--.

1806

1 drawing : pen and ink

The organs. 1. of sexual instinct. 2. of parental & filial love. 3. of susceptibility for instruction. 4. of finding & remembering places. 5. of recollecting persons. 6. of comparing colours. 7. of music. 8. of arithmetic ... Lettering continues: "9. of finding and remembering words. 10. of philology. 11. of mechanical arts. 12. of friendship & attachment. 13. of fighting. 14. of murder. 15. of cunning. 16. of thieving. 17. of loftiness & bigb[sic] minded ness. 18. of thirst for glory & vanity. 19. of reflection. 20. of ingenuity. 21. of philosophical judgment. 22. of wit. 23. of induction. 24. of meekness or good nature. 25. of religious fanaticism. 26. of constancy. 27. of imitative power"

Wellcome Collection 27670i