Two physiognomies showing hybrids of man and ox. Drawing, c. 1789, after C. Le Brun.

These drawings are for engravings which appear under the heading 'Resemblance of man and animals'. The faces are expressive of stupidity and brutality: "caricatures of men forced into a resemblance to the ox". Pictures of oxen sit under these images, which are augmented by another, full frontal, representation of the man-cow

In applying the study of physiognomy to the animal world, Lavater asserts a "proportional difference of force and form. ... From the insect invisible to the naked eye, up to the elephant, is not the gradation of internal and external character perpetually in exact relation?" (vol. II.i. p. 99)

[London], 1789?

1 drawing : graphite

Wellcome Collection 29016i