Principles of beauty, relative to the human head / [Alexander Cozens].

  • Alexander Cozens
Date:
1778
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Principles of beauty, relative to the human head / [Alexander Cozens]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ! POR D NGC IMPS D ENS ir OB. EA, Oise ae TO IN the MODEST,---the Senfible, Good-natured, Timid, Innocent. IN the LANGUID,---the Senfible, Modeft, Timid. IN the PENETRATING,---the Senfible, Spirited. IN the ENGAGING,---the Senfible, Spirited, Penetrating, Good-natured, Artful. IN the GOOD-NATURED,---the Senfible, Chearful, Innocent. IN the TIMID,---the Senfible, Tender, Modeft, or IN the CHEARFUL,---the Spirited, Good-natured, Innocent. IN the ARTFUL,---the Senfible, Penetrating, Engaging. IN the INNOCENT,---the Senfible, Modeft. I AM confcious much more may be faid upon the fubje@ of the beauty of the human face, but I have prefumed only to give a hint of a new practical fcheme to the public, referring the ultimate decifion of the principles to the feelings and experience of mankind; and I fhall reft extremely pleafed, if this undertaking fhall promote a difcuffion of the fubject among the-curious. I beg leave to add, that upon the whole I’ have endeavoured to produce the following effects in all the examples, that is, beauty, expreflion, and dignity, and all of them in the ftate of tranquility; for I conceive that the whole fet may be performed or compofed in fuch a manner as to be accompanied with more or lefs of the above properties, and yet fufhciently varied in the individuals by the proper diftin@ion of character. COLLECTION
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