Yale Center for British Art

Creator:: Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741-1801
Title:: Essays on physiognomy : designed to promote the knowledge and the love of mankind / by John Caspar Lavater ... : illustrated by more than eight hundred engravings accurately copied, and some duplicates added from originals ; executed by, or under the inspection of, Thomas Holloway ; translated from the French by Henry Hunter, D.D., Minister of the Scots Church, London-Wall.
Alternate Title(s):: Physiognomische Fragmente zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntniss und Menschenliebe. English
Published / Created:: London : Printed for John Murray, no. 32, Fleet-Street; H. Hunter, D.D. Charles's-Square; and T. Holloway, no. 11, Bache's-Row, Hoxton, MDCCLXXXIX-MDCCXCVIII [1789-1798, i.e. 1799]
Physical Description:: 3 volumes in 5 : illustrations, 34 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:: Books
Notes:: BEIN Zg18 L412 +g789: Bookplate of Colonel Shedden. Volumes 1 and 2 are reprinted, except for the preliminary leaves. Despite the dates of the imprints (1789 and 1792), the watermarks are dated 1801, 1804, and 1806. A copy of the first edition is in the Franklin collection.
Exhibition History:: The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
Subject Terms:: Physiognomy. | Characters and characteristics. | Shedden, Colonel -- Bookplate. | Grant, John -- Bookplate. | Fergus, John -- Autograph.
Form/Genre:: Engravings -- 1788-1799.
Contributors:: Hunter, Henry, 1741–1802, translator. | Murray, John, 1742–1793, publisher. | Bensley, Thomas, approximately 1760–1835, printer. | Audinet, Philip, 1766–1837, engraver. | Barlow, Inigo, engraver. | Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815, engraver. | Blake, William, 1757–1827, engraver. | Bromley, William, 1769–1842, engraver. | Caldwall, James, 1739–1819, engraver. | Grignion, Charles, 1721–1810, engraver. | Hall, John, 1739–1797, engraver. | Heath, James, 1757–1834, engraver. | Holloway, Thomas, 1748–1827, engraver. | Howe, engraver. | Neagle, James, 1760?-1822, engraver. | Rhodes, Richard, 1765–1838, engraver. | Sharp, William, 1749–1824, engraver. | Smith, Anker, 1759–1819, engraver. | Taylor, Isaac, 1730–1807, engraver. | Thomson, Paton, approximately 1750–, engraver. | Thornwaite, J., 1740– engraver. | Trotter, Thomas, 1756–1803, engraver. | Vivarès, Thomas, approximately 1735–approximately 1810, engraver. | Burney, illustrator. | Champaigne, Philippe de, 1602–1674, illustrator. | Chodowiecki, Daniel, 1726–1801, illustrator. | Fuseli, Henry, 1741–1825, illustrator. | Holbein, Hans, 1497–1543, illustrator. | Contat, Nicolas, 1717 or 1718–1768?, illustrator. | Kauffmann, Angelica, 1741–1807, illustrator. | Kneller, Godfrey, Sir, 1646–1723, illustrator. | Mignard, Pierre, 1612–1695, illustrator. | Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577–1640, illustrator. | Schlutter, illustrator. | Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599–1641, illustrator. | West, Benjamin, 1738–1820, illustrator.