A creature undergoing physiognomic metamorphosis from a frog into an ideal head of Apollo. Coloured drawing by J.C. Lavater, 179-.

  • Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741-1801.
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34715i
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Description

The creature has now metamorphosed through 9 stages of the full 24

Physical description

1 drawing : pencil, with watercolour ; image 7.8 x 6.3 cm

Lettering

Bears number in Lavater's hand: 9

Creator/production credits

Baur (op. cit.) suggests that the design (which in its full version includes 24 stages), which is a reworking of a series of 12 frontal physiognomies in the 1778 publication of the 'Fragmente' is much influenced by Petrus Camper's similar designs made in the intervening years

References note

Otto Baur, Bestiarium Humanum, Munich 1974, p. 56-7

Reference

Wellcome Collection 34715i

Notes

One of seven works in this series in the Wellcome Library

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