New physiognomy
A Victorian American manual of physiognomy and phrenology, published in New York in 1867 by Fowler and Wells and written by Samuel R. Wells. Its pictures are engraved profile heads in the printed style of the period, each showing a different man's face and hair in side view. A designer could draw on their crisp hatched linework and the contrast between the sharp, angular profiles and the soft, curled hair.
