The head of an animal, in the sixth stage of a physiognomic metamorphosis from a frog to an ideal head of Apollo. Coloured drawing by J.C. Lavater, 179-.

1 drawing : pencil, with watercolour ; image 8.1 x 6.5 cm

Bears number in Lavater's hand: 6

Baur (op. cit.) suggests that the design, which is a reworking of a series of 12 frontal physiognomies in the 1778 publication of the 'Fragmente' is much influenced by Petrus Camper's similar designs made in the intervening years

Otto Baur, Bestiarium humanum, Munich 1974, pp. 56-7

Wellcome Collection 34714i

One in seven works in this series in the Wellcome Library