Pencil drawing of a young man with tousled hair and a faint smile, head and shoulders, with a date inscribed at lower left and a page number at top right.

Young man, plate from The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases

A monochrome drawing, reproduced as a printed plate, shows the head and shoulders of a young man with tousled hair, a faint smile, and his gaze turned toward the viewer. Hatched shading models his loose collared garment, while a dated inscription at lower left and a page number at upper right mark it as a book page.

Artist: Alexander Morison
Date: 1843
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Source: Wellcome Collection
Size: 2761 × 4000 px

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