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A fashionable lecturer demonstrates the art of physiognomy through reference to busts. Etching, 1765.
Wellcome Collection

A fashionable lecturer demonstrates the art of physiognomy through reference to busts. Etching, 1765.

1765

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Wellcome Collection

Lettering: A representation of the several humerous heads, exhibited in the lecture on heads etched in caricatura. Engraved for the Universal Museum & Complete Mag ...

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