Phrenological Illustrations

Phrenological Illustrations
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Phrenological illustrations; or, An artist's view of the craniological system of Doctors Gall and Spurzheim

By George Cruikshank. London: The Author, 1830.

Phrenological Illustrations is a 19th-century satirical work by British artist and caricaturist George Cruikshank that pokes fun at the “science” of phrenology, the pseudo-science in which one analyzed the shape and features of the human skull to explain behavior and personality.

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