Physical expression : its modes and principles
A late-Victorian treatise on physical expression, written by the physician Francis Warner and published in London by Kegan Paul, Trench in 1885, aimed at students of physiology and the medical profession. Its four pictures are simple pen line drawings of hands in different positions, with outlines of fingers, knuckles and wrists rendered in a few thick and thin strokes on a cream ground, showing how a gesture can be read from the shape of the hand alone and offering a designer a model for minimal, gesture-led figure drawing.
