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Image number: RS.10279
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‘A face demonstrating veneration or reverence and a face showing fear and terror.’
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
width (print): 307mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Illustration of a face showing reverence and a face showing fear or terror.
Image 1- the upper lid of each eye is drawn up and the mouth partially opened creates an expression of veneration or reverence. The pupils are also turned upward.
Image 2- The eye-brows are dragged upwards, and the eye-lids draw up and above the pupils and the lower jaw is pulled down to create an expression of terror. Parsons states that the eyes are opened wide so as to better observe the object of terror.
Parsons makes reference to classical texts and poetry in the accompanying text; connecting the expressions he illustrates with scenarios in said literature.
Plate 3 from Human Physiognomy Explain’d: In the Crounian Lectures on Muscular Motion by James Parsons FRS (London, C. Davis, 1746). Inscribed: ‘Tab .III. p.53. I. Ps MD. del. J.Mynde sc.'
Image 1- the upper lid of each eye is drawn up and the mouth partially opened creates an expression of veneration or reverence. The pupils are also turned upward.
Image 2- The eye-brows are dragged upwards, and the eye-lids draw up and above the pupils and the lower jaw is pulled down to create an expression of terror. Parsons states that the eyes are opened wide so as to better observe the object of terror.
Parsons makes reference to classical texts and poetry in the accompanying text; connecting the expressions he illustrates with scenarios in said literature.
Plate 3 from Human Physiognomy Explain’d: In the Crounian Lectures on Muscular Motion by James Parsons FRS (London, C. Davis, 1746). Inscribed: ‘Tab .III. p.53. I. Ps MD. del. J.Mynde sc.'
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