Notes on noses / [by Eden Warwick [pseud.]].

Warwick, Eden, pseud. · 1852 · London : Richard Bentley, 1852.; London : Harrison. · 18 pictures

A mid-nineteenth-century London book on physiognomy, published in 1852 by Richard Bentley under the pseudonym Eden Warwick, that studies noses and their supposed meaning for character. The four pictures are small wood-engraved portraits: an eighteenth-century man in profile with a powdered wig, a classical laureate head in profile resembling a coin, a periwigged man in three-quarter view, and a woman with curled hair and a pearl necklace. Their hatched backgrounds and oval or vignette framing offer a designer ready examples of Victorian engraved portrait conventions.

Nose · Physiognomy

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