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Collection: Striking Impressions

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Line break composed of facial features

Line break composed of illustrated facial features

Making faces

Making faces

Man with a pointed nose and round, protruding chin.

Man with a wide face, long ears, large nose, wrinkles around his winking eyes and a crooked grin.

Mocking faces: caricature

Mocking faces: caricature

Page from a book with a large detailed illustration of a human skull in profile, captioned From a mound on the upper Mississippi.

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Page from a book with example caricature faces demonstrating different shapes. Dotted lines in sharp, straight or curved shapes form the profiles of the faces to which features are added.

Page from a book with woodcut prints of faces. The faces all have exaggerated wrinkles on their brows. A man with straight wrinkles is captioned 'These lines are the character of a simple and honest person'. A man with many broken and wavy wrinkles is captioned 'These lines are emblems of unconstant fortune, now rich and then poor.' A man with zigzagging, wave-like wrinkles is captioned 'Such lines predict drowning, or great perils by water.'

Page from a book with woodcut prints of faces. The faces all have exaggerated wrinkles on their brows. A man with wrinkles in the shape of broken lines and hooks is captioned These lines denote a murderer, and one that shall suffer a violent death. A woman with gently wavering wrinkles is captioned Such lines denote a favourable, good, and gentle fortune.

Page of a book with an illustration of a human skull. The skull has irregularly shaped and numbered areas marked out on the upper part.

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