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Physiognotrace
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A physiognotrace is an instrument, designed to trace a person's physiognomy to make semi-automated portrait aquatints. Invented in France in 1783–1784, it was popular for some decades. The sitter clim
Pierre Gaveaux, 1821, by Edme Quenedey (1756–1830) after a physiognotrace
Pierre Gaveaux, 1821, by Edme Quenedey (1756–1830) after a physiognotrace
Quenedey's drawing of the tool
Quenedey's drawing of the tool
Raphaelle Peale's physiognotrace
Raphaelle Peale's physiognotrace
Physiognomy
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Physiognomy, or face reading and sometimes known by the later term anthroposcopy, is the practice of assessing a person's character or personality from their outer appearance—especially the face. The
Physiognotrace
…A physiognotrace is an instrument, designed to trace a person's physiognomy to make semi-automated portrait aquatints. Invented in France in 1783–1784, it was popular for some decades. The sitter climbed into a wooden frame…
Lithographic drawing illustrative of the relation between the human physiognomy and that of the brute creation, by Charles Le Brun (1619–1690)
Lithographic drawing illustrative of the relation between the human physiognomy and that of the brute creation, by Charles Le Brun (1619–1690)
Illustration in a 19th-century book about physiognomy
Illustration in a 19th-century book about physiognomy
Giambattista Della Porta, De humana physiognomonia (Vico Equense [Naples]: Apud Iosephum Cacchium, 1586
Giambattista Della Porta, De humana physiognomonia (Vico Equense [Naples]: Apud Iosephum Cacchium, 1586
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Johann Kaspar Lavater