Design for a plate to J. C. Lavater’s, ‘Essays on Physiognomy’, trans. Henry Hunter, London 1789–1798, vol.III.ii., facing p.361. The published engraving is contained in a chapter on eyes, in a subsection on eyebrows. The section begins: ‘If such an attempt were made to form a judgement of whole nations, on such or such a separate part of the face, the English would obtain the preference in respect of eyebrows. With them the trait always characterises the thinker, and I risk nothing when I add, that the fertile spirit of the French usually manifests itself in the shape of the nose’. Lavater goes on to state that ‘had I seen nothing of the following vignette of Samuel Clarke, but the eyebrows only – and in this copy they are very indifferently drawn – I should not doubt for a single moment about the majestic form of the forehead and nose which they necessarily suppose’.