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[Lecture on the comparative study of skulls by Dr. Gall]

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Thomas Rowlandson
1756-1827

[Lecture on the comparative study of skulls by Dr. Gall]

[London? : s.n., ca. 1800?
aquatint, hand colored
image: 226 x 184 mm; plate mark: 243 x 194 mm; sheet: 281 x 240 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.700
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Summary

Print shows a group of five grotesquely caricatured men attending to a sixth man identified as Dr. Franz Joseph Gall, who is lecturing them on a skull which he holds up in his left hand. An open volume rests on a lectern beneath the lecturers prominent stomach, and the walls around the group are lined with shelves holding a collection of skulls and busts; the three shelves located behind them at left are labeled: Lawyers, thieves & murderers. - Poets, dramatists, actors. - Philosophers, statesmen & historians.

Associated names
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner
Classification
Department