Physiognomik. Zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntniss und Menschenliebe
Lavater's Physiognomik, published in Vienna in 1829 by J.P. Sollinger, is a German treatise on reading character from facial features, meant to aid understanding and humane feeling toward others. Its plates are profile head studies drawn in fine pen outline, numbered and set side by side for comparison, with the contrasts in brow, nose, chin and hair giving a designer clear models for caricature-like character portraits.
