Facts & faces : being an enquiry into the connection between linear & mental portraiture ; with a dissertation on personal & relative beauty ... / Thomas Woolnoth.
Facts & faces is a London treatise of 1854 by the engraver Thomas Woolnoth on physiognomy, linking drawn likeness to character and comparing personal and relative beauty. Its pencil-and-stipple plates show profile and three-quarter heads of men and women with exaggerated expressions, including a sneering grimace, a stern older man labelled Tyranny, and a smiling profile with a lace collar. A designer could use them as studies in how a single gesture of brow, mouth or jaw shifts a face from kindly to hostile.
