| Description Of Item | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Similar to plate 57 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Unsigned [Alexander Johnston].
'Portrait of J. C, aged 35.
This man, about eight years ago, was convicted of fraudulent bankruptcy, and was sentenced to fourteen years' transportation — about two years afterwards he became insane, and has continued so since that time; his insanity is characterized by an irresistible propensity to steal — he is occasionally so violent in his language and conduct, as to require restraint, but his thieving propensity never leaves him.' |