Notes of the United States of North America, During a Phrenological Visit in 1898-9-40: Volume 1 Page: 163 of 444
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USE OF PHRENOLOGY TO ARTISTS. 123
culated to be useful to artists in teaching them the
principles and readier discrimination of natural language.
Every faculty when roused into predominant
activity, stamps on the eyes and features a mental
expression peculiar to itself, and it produces also peculiar
attitudes of the body. When several faculties
are strongly excited at the same time, the expression
and attitude are of a mixed character, but the peculiar
influence of each faculty is still clearly discernible.
There is nothing arbitrary or contradictory in the
results. Artists who do not know these expressions
individually, are liable to misunderstand their combinations.
The sentiment of Wonder, for instance,
when strongly excited, rises into a feeling of the supernatural,
and this is intended to be the predominant
emotion in Jeremiah, in the picture now described.
It is accordingly accurately pourtrayed in the eyes;
but the forehead, and mouth, and attitude, do not
express it; yet, in nature, they would have been
modified into harmony with it. The eyebrows would
have been arched upwards, the mouth would have
been open, and the head raised gently upwards and to
the side, in the direction of the organ of Wonder.
When visiting the Royal Gallery of Paintings in
Dresden in 1837, I saw several striking illustrations
of these remarks. The head of Christ in the Last
Supper by Carlo Dolce (No. 494 of the catalogue)
strikingly expresses goodness, intelligence, and internal
suffering meekly endured. Christ stands before
a table with the wine-cup and a roll of bread before
him, and his eyes are turned upwards and gently
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Combe, George, 1788-1858. Notes of the United States of North America, During a Phrenological Visit in 1898-9-40: Volume 1, book, 1841; Edinburgh, Scotland. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1028/m1/163/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.