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Engraved frontispiece with a front-facing head and two smaller views below, covered in numbered phrenology regions on the skull.

Phrenology Frontispiece: Three Views of a Head with Numbered Faculty Regions

An engraved frontispiece shows a bald male head seen from the front, with a profile and a rear view below. Numbered and outlined regions cover the skull, with small numerals and lines marking divisions across the forehead and crown. The stippled, monochrome plate has a caption reading Frontispiece at the top and a publication line at the bottom.

Artist
Johann Spurzheim
Date
1825
Medium
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
2380 × 4000 px
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Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1825.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Wellcome Collection)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection