Phrenological Heads

keats1               keats3

[left] John Keats (1795-1821) life mask, [ca. 1810]. Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh. Loan from the William Ramsay Henderson Trust

[right] John Keats (1795-1821) life mask by Benjamin Robert Haydon, from the original in National Portrait Gallery, London, [ca. 1810]. Laurence Hutton Collection of Life and Death Masks, Princeton University.

A group of “Phrenological Heads: the Famous” are on permanent display in the library of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh. Several are portraits of the same sitters represented in the Laurence Hutton collection at Princeton. It is interesting to compare ours with theirs.

colridge                 coleridge3

[left] Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) death mask, 1834. Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh. Loan from the William Ramsay Henderson Trust

[right] Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) death mask, from the original, 1834. Laurence Hutton Life and Death Mask Collection, Princeton University.

heads2Library, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh