Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.10277
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    ‘A view of the Muscles of the Face in Profile.’

    Date
    1746
    Creator
    James Mynde (1710, British) , Engraver
    After
    James Parsons (1706, British) , Artist
    Object type
    Library reference
    Tracts/CXXVII/4
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 185mm
    width (print): 307mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Anatomy
    Content object
    human body
       > ear
    human body
       > skull
    human body
       > head
    Description
    Anatomical illustration showing the muscles of the face and the muscles of the eye.

    Image 2- A view of the orbicular and palpebral muscles, taken off the head
    Image 3- the surface of the same muscles which lie next to the bones
    Image 4- the motion of the eye-lid

    Plate 1 from Human Physiognomy Explain’d: In the Crounian Lectures on Muscular Motion by James Parsons FRS (London, C. Davis, 1746). Inscribed: ‘Tab .I. p.48. I. Ps MD. del. J.Mynde sc.’
    Associated place
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          > United Kingdom
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