Le cours de phrénologie (The phrenology lesson) Print
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Title
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Le cours de phrénologie (The phrenology lesson) Print
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Rights
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The British Museum, England. © The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence.
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Creator
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Alphonse Legros (1837-1911)
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Date
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ca 1852-1877
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Description
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Numerous bearded men sit in a dimly-lit classroom listening to a spotlit man lecture at a pedestal. The pedestal contains 4-5 skulls as he stands above them, lecturing on the topic of phrenology. The man is bearded, has a receding hairline, and is dressed in robes with one hand raised up.
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Format
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Etched print. 23.6 x 31.7 cm.
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Publisher
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The British Museum.
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Contributor
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Aiden Lucier
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Identifier
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The British Museum. 1907,0424.38.
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Subject
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Print; phrenology; illustration; skulls; lecture; Alphonse Legros; etching; professor; class
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Source
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Jpg file. The British Museum. 11/9/2025. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1907-0424-38.
