Essai Sur La Physiognomonie Destiné, A faire Connoître l'Homme & à le faire Aimer: Essai Sur La Physiognomie, Destiné A faire Connoître l'Homme & à le faire Aimer; Seconde Partie
This is a French physiognomy treatise by Johann Caspar Lavater, with Dutch co-authors and translators, published in 1783 and aimed at readers who wanted to know and like people through their faces. Its pictures are small engraved profile and three-quarter portraits of men, shown in ovals with plain grounds, and a designer can take from them the expressive weight of a single line of profile, the hatched shading of hair and collars, and the oval frame as a portrait device.
