| Description Of Item | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 18 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Unsigned [Alexander Johnston].
'E. I, aged 64, a female possessing some property, of a turbulent disposition, and giving considerable annoyance to the neighbourhood in which she lived, affirmed, that she was in a peculiar manner the daughter of the God of heaven; and that she was Venus in the first place of the sign Libra — that she was well acquainted with the formation of the world, and the counsels of the Almighty, but she conceived herself under the influence of evil machinery. She was easily excited by contradiction.
She became excessively fat, and died of apoplexy.
She is represented in her favourite dress.' |