Essays on physiognomy; calculated to extend the knowledge and the love of mankind
Lavater's 1797 London edition of Essays on Physiognomy, published by H.D. Symonds, is a late eighteenth-century treatise on reading character from facial features, offered to a general reading public. Its engravings show heads drawn in profile and three-quarter turns, with dense curled hair, sketched in plain line and shaded crosshatching, giving a designer a clear model for expressive portrait studies and period hairstyling.
