The brain, sectioned vertically; showing the sites of some phrenological faculties. Process print, 1901, after etching, 1809.
- Date:
- 1901
- Reference:
- 28020i
- Pictures
About this work
Description
The faculties enumerated in the lettering relate back to earlier phrenological categories: 'attachment to home' was 'inhabitiveness' in Spurzheim's system; 'attachment to offspring' was 'philoprogenitiveness' in most systems; both can be applied to animals
Publication/Creation
London (9 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden) ; New York : Grant Richards : G.P. Putnam's sons, 1901.
Physical description
1 photomechanical reproduction : half-tone
Lettering
Vertical section of brain. From Gall's Atlas 1809 (reduced). XVII. Veneration. XIII. Firmness. IV. Attachment to home. II. Attachment to offspring. See also lower illustration on next plate. Plate XIII
Book contains erratum slip: "For XVII veneration read XXVII veneration"
Reference
Wellcome Collection 28020i
Reproduction note
Original design from the 'Atlas' of 100 plates to Gall's 'Anatomie et physiologie du système nerveux en général, et du cerveau en particulier' (4 volumes; Paris, 1810-1819)
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