The pocket Lavater, or, The science of physiognomy : to which is added, an inquiry into the analogy existing between brute and human physiognomy, from the Italian of Porta : embellished with 44 copperplate heads
The pocket Lavater is a small 1817 New York pamphlet on physiognomy, compiled from Johann Caspar Lavater and Giambattista della Porta and published by Van Winkle & Wiley for a general readership. Its copperplate heads show profiles of men and women with hair rendered in dense stippled and hatched lines, with varied wigs, ringlets and loose tresses that a designer could use for period portraiture or character study.
