Gallery›Wellcome Collection›A crowd watches as two men gamble; representing the phrenological faculty of acquisitiveness. Steel engraving by L.A. Portier, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
A crowd watches as two men gamble; representing the phrenological faculty of acquisitiveness. Steel engraving by L.A. Portier, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
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A crowd watches as two men gamble; representing the phrenological faculty of acquisitiveness. Steel engraving by L.A. Portier, 1847, after H. Bruyères.

Hippolyte Bruyères · 1847

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Lettering: Phrénologie. Acquisivité. Les joueurs. H. Bruyères del. Adolphe Portier sculp. Pl. 46.

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