[Engraving by Tudor Horton, based on daguerreotypes by Mathew Brady, printed in Sampson's Rationale of Crime...1846 (phrenological studies): head measurements of two pickpockets] – Vintage Photo Print
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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[Engraving by Tudor Horton, based on daguerreotypes by Mathew Brady, printed in Sampson's Rationale of Crime...1846 (phrenological studies): head measurements of two pickpockets]
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Two pickpockets, whose head measurements were recorded for study, are the subject of this 1846 engraving. Tudor Horton engraved the plates from daguerreotypes by Mathew Brady, the photographer later known for his Civil War portraits, for an edition of Sampson's *Rationale of Crime*. The work belongs to the phrenological tradition, which held that the shape of the skull revealed character and criminal tendency. Today the plates read less as science than as an early example of photography being used to classify people, and that is what makes them worth a closer look.
| Medium | 1 print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [no date recorded on caption card] |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 877 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-127075 |
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