Multiple Photographers, Illustration of Chapter VII in The Expression of the Emotions of Man and Animals; Plate II Showing Low Spirits, Anxiety, Grief, Dejection, Despair, c. 1872.
Featured on PDR in the essay The Naturalist and the Neurologist: On Charles Darwin and James Crichton-Browne
Stassa Edwards explores Charles Darwin's photography collection, which includes almost forty portraits of mental patients given to him by the neurologist James Crichton-Browne. The study of these photographs, and the related correspondence between the two men, would prove instrumental in the development of The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), Darwin's book on the evolution of emotions.
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Low Spirits, Anxiety, Grief, Dejection, Despair
Date
1872
From
The Expression of the Emotions of Man and Animals
