| Description Of Item | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 62 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Signed A J [Alexander Johnston].
'Portrait of J. C. aged 40.
This man was tried and found guilty, but acquitted on the ground of insanity; his crime was stated to be 'contra naturae ordinem rem habuit veneream et carnaliter cognovit asinam.' He is of a dull temperament, and of rather weak intellect.' |