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La physionomie chez l'homme et chez les animaux, dans ses rapports avec l'expression des émotions et des sentiments / S. Schack.

Schack, Sophus Peter Lassenius, 1811-1864., Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh · 1887 · Paris : J.-B. Baillière, 1887. · 41 pictures

A French physiognomy treatise from 1887 by the Danish author S. Schack, published in Paris by J.-B. Baillière, examining how facial features express emotions and character in humans and animals. The four plates show profile heads in engraved line, with exaggerated noses, brows and jaws set against a yellow-tinted page, offering a designer reference for caricatured or grotesque profile studies.

Physiognomy

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