Browse Artefacts (249 total)

Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Similar to plate 32 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Unsigned [Alexander Johnston].

'Portrait of M. A. R., a married female, aged 40, labouring under an attack of…

Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 33 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Unsigned [Alexander Johnston].

'Portrait of J. J., a married female, aged 38; she is afraid that she is to be murdered, and…

Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 36 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840), engraved by W H Lizars. Unsigned [François Rochard].

'Portrait of a female, in whom delusive fear of every object and…

Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Similar to plate 44 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Unsigned [Alexander Johnston].

'Portrait of R. N., aged 35, a married female who had been deserted by her…

Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. The reverse of the drawing has been used for a rough sketch of a man. Signed Chas Gow.

Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 84 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Signed A J [Alexander Johnston].

'Portrait of W. N.; aged 18.

This is the same idiot represented in Plate LXXXIV;…

Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 83 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Unsigned [François Rochard].

'Portrait of W. N.; aged 6 years.

This boy has been idiotic since his birth; his mother…

Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Signed C Gow.

Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Unsigned [Charles Gow].

Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 31 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840), engraved by W H Lizars. Unsigned.

'This exhibits an elderly female, in whom lascivious ideas predominated, constituting the…