Phrenology diagram indicating the strength inherent in the shape of George Washington’s head, featured in Fowler’s The Practical Phrenologist (1846). Note the accidental crown suggested by the labelling lines.
Featured on PDR in the essay George Washington: A Descendant of Odin?
Yvonne Seale on a bizarre and fanciful piece of genealogical scholarship and what it tells us about identity in late 19th-century America.
Also appearing in the essay…
The Strength Inherent in the Shape of George Washington’s Head
Date
1846
From
The Practical Phrenologist
