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Dissertation sur les variétés naturelles qui caractérisent la physionomie des hommes des divers climats et des différens ages : suivie de réflexions sur la beauté, particulièrement sur celle de la tête : avec une manière nouvelle de dessiner toute sorte de têtes avec la plus grande exactitude

Camper, Petrus, 1722-1789 · 1792 · A Paris : Chez Francart, libraire ... · 11 pictures

Camper's 1792 Paris treatise on physiognomy and the head, written by the Dutch anatomist Petrus Camper for artists and draughtsmen, with its variations of skull and profile by climate and age. The plates are fine line-engraved profile drawings of skulls and heads, arranged in grids with measuring lines; a designer could take from them the facial angle method for constructing heads from childhood to old age.

Anatomy, Artistic · Craniology · Physiognomy · Head in art · Human beings

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