Essai Sur La Physiognomonie Destiné, A faire Connoître l'Homme & à le faire Aimer
Lavater's 1787 Essai sur la physiognomonie, a Dutch-issued French treatise on reading character from facial features, produced for a general readership of educated Europeans. Its pictures are small engraved and etched profile heads in strict side view, shaded with fine hatching and set against blank paper, offering a designer examples of expressive profile portraiture and period hairstyles, collars and cravats.
