Title: Essay on Physiognomy (Essai sur la Physiognomie Destiné à Faire Connoître l'Homme & à le faire Aimer, par Jean Gaspard Lavater, Citoyen de Zurich et Ministre du St. Evangile)
Object type: Book
Date: 1783
Artist:  Johann Caspar Lavater 
Artist bio: Swiss, Zurich 1741–1801 Zurich
Artist nationality: Swiss
Artist role: Author
Medium: Etching and engraving
Dimensions: 13 11/16 x 11 in. (34.8 x 28 cm)
Classification: Books
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1968
Geography: Printed The Hague         
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Men, term: Portraits, term: Profiles, term: Women