- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1800?]
- Call Number:
- Print00600
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Print shows a group of five grotesquely caricatured men attending to a sixth man identified as Dr. Franz Joseph Gall, who is lecturing them on a skull which he holds up in his left hand. An open volume rests on a lectern beneath the lecturers prominent stomach, and the walls around the group are lined with shelves holding a collection of skulls and busts; the three shelves located behind them at left are labeled: Lawyers, thieves & murderers. - Poets, dramatists, actors. - Philosophers, statesmen & historians
- Alternative Title:
- Dr. Gall's lecture
- Description:
- Title and date supplied by cataloger., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching and aquatint, hand-colored ; plate mark 241 x 195 mm., and Ink annotation in lower right margin: H.C. from A.C.K. Feb. 1915.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Gall, F. J. 1758-1828 (Franz Joseph), and Gall, F. J. 1758-1828. (Franz Joseph),
- Subject (Topic):
- Craniology, Phrenology, Skull, Science, Physicians, and Lectures and lecturing
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > [Lecture on the comparative study of skulls by Dr. Gall] [graphic]
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