Essai Sur La Physiognomonie Destiné, A faire Connoître l'Homme & à le faire Aimer
Lavater's 1783 Essai sur la physiognomonie, a French-language treatise on reading character from facial features, edited and illustrated by Jacobus van Karnebeek, Isaac van Cleef and Hendrik van Teeckelenburgh for a general readership. Its pictures are small engraved profile and three-quarter portrait heads with numbered captions, drawn in fine hatched line on plain paper, offering a designer clear models of 18th-century wigs, collars and expressive facial proportions.
