Accession No

5344

Brief Description

phrenological illustrations, six coloured plates, disbound, by George Cruikshank, English, 1827

Origin

England; London; Pentonville; Myddelton Terrace

Maker

Cruikshank, George

Class

prints; physiology

Earliest Date

1827

Latest Date

1827

Inscription Date

1827

Material

paper

Dimensions

width 260mm; length 350mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Purchased from G. David Bookseller, 16 St Edward's Passage, Cambridge, England on 03/11/1998.

Inscription

frontispiece
PHRENOLOGICAL ILLUSTRATIONS,
OR
An Artist’s View
OF THE
CRANIOLOGICAL SYSTEM OF DOCTORS GALL AND SPURZHEIM
BY
GEORGE CRUIKSHANK

Description Notes

Cruikshank’s phrenological illustrations 1827. 6 Plates coloured. Disbound. Published by Goerge Cruikshank. Sold by J. Robbins and Co. Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row; S. knights, Sweetings Alley, Royal Exchange; and G. Humphrey, 24 St James Street.

The frontispeice has a comical illustration of a trio of men, their heads divided into phrenological regions. The text accompanying the colour plates concerns itself with Gall and Spurzheims phrenological characteristics. Its tone is between flippant and sarcastic and the images in the plates accompanying the text are literal translations of the characteristic rather than visual representations of the shape, size and protrusions of the head.

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