Twelve human profiles in outline, sectioned to show their disproportion. Drawing, c. 1794, after A. Dürer.

Lavater entitles this image 'Caricaturas, after the Anthropometry of A. Dürer'. He uses it to illustrate his principle that the "disproportion in the parts of the face has an influence on the physiological constitution of man. ... Will the most determined Anti-physionomist ... presume to say, that these physionomies are noble, distinguished, and intelligent. No such, and the reason of it is obvious. They all deviate from the usual proportions, and such a deviation necessarily produces disgusting forms and features"