Phrenological illustrations, or an artist's view of the craniological system of Doctors Gall and Spurzheim / By George Cruikshank.
George Cruikshank's 1827 London set of satirical plates, published by Cruikshank and sold through three London booksellers, parodies the phrenology of Gall and Spurzheim by labelling vignettes with mental faculties such as Philoprogenitiveness, Hope and Wit. Its hand-coloured etchings are small, framed and caricatured, with crowded street and domestic scenes that show how a designer might turn a pseudo-scientific chart into a comic grid of labelled character types.
