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  • A Roman soldier throws a javelin over a dead body. Drawing, c. 1793.
  • A woman weeping over her dead lover. Drawing, c. 1793.
  • L'art de connaître les hommes par la physionomie ... / par M. Moreau.
  • Essays on physiognomy; for the promotion of the knowledge and the love of mankind / Written in the German language by John Caspar Lavater, and translated [from the German] into English by Thomas Holcroft.
  • Eight likenesses of Socrates. Two drawings, c. 1789.
  • Profile of a man displaying a choleric temperament. Drawing, c. 1792.
  • Four physiognomies. Drawings, c. 1789.
  • L'art de connaître les hommes par la physionomie ... / par M. Moreau.
  • A woman in a state of attention without interest. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Twelve mouths. Drawing, c. 1793.
  • Four physiognomies. Drawings, c. 1789.
  • René Descartes: portrait. Drawing, c. 1794.
  • L'art de connaître les hommes par la physionomie ... / par M. Moreau.
  • Idealized profile of Martha Hess, exemplifying Lavater's principle of the homogeneity of the face. Drawing, c. 1791, after J.H. Füssli.
  • Four heads of boys. Drawing, c. 1793.
  • An 'ideal head' shown to have slight idiosyncrasies in physiognomy. Drawing, c. 1789, after Raphael.
  • Eyes expressing extreme emotion, from coldness to rage. Drawing, c. 1794.
  • A youth whose physiognomy attests to unrefinability and obstinate weakness. Drawing, c. 1789, after D.N. Chodowiecki.
  • Twelve human profiles in outline, sectioned to show their disproportion. Drawing, c. 1794, after A. Dürer.
  • Idealized profile of Martha Hess, exemplifying Lavater's principle of the homogeneity of the face. Drawing, c. 1791, after J.H. Füssli.
  • Oppyck: portrait. Drawing, c. 1794.
  • Eyes which express (according to Lavater) a good but weak and thus possibly suspicious character. Drawing, c. 1794.
  • Profiles of three men deemed untrustworthy by Lavater in his account of physiognomy. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Sixteen portraits of classical poets and thinkers. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Eight physiognomies. Drawings by D.N. Chodowiecki, ca. 1789, after C. Le Brun.
  • Head of a lynx and two figures of the head of a beaver. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Eyes expressing a noble and magnanimous character with an ordered mind, according to Lavater's method of physiognomy. Drawing, c. 1794.
  • Progression of a woman through the ages of fifty to a hundred. Drawing, c. 1794.
  • A woman paying mild attention to something. Drawing, c. 1794, after N. Poussin.
  • Head of the Apollo Belvedere statue in the Vatican. Drawing, c. 1791.