Forms of the Forehead and Nose for a Profile Portrait
A taxonomy of noses illustrated by two banked rows of profile diagrams
A fair-copy text page that classifies the forehead as flat, concave, or bulging and subdivides the flat kind, then teaches how to fix a profile face in memory through four members: nose, mouth, chin, and forehead. Noses are sorted into straight, concave, and convex, each with its subdivisions. Two banked rows of small nose profiles in ruled boxes fill the lower half of the sheet, and these diagrams carry short pen captions that are not included in the transcription.
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Three forms of the forehead
The forehead has three varieties: flat, concave, or bulging. The flat forehead divides into four kinds according to whether it is convex above, convex below, convex both above and below, or flat above and below.
Four members to memorize for a profile
To draw a human profile from a single glance you must commit to memory the varieties of four members seen in profile: the nose, the mouth, the chin, and the forehead.
Straight, concave, and convex noses
Noses are of three sorts. The straight has four varieties: long, short, high at the tip, and low. The concave has three, with the hollow above, in the middle, or below. The convex likewise has three, with the hump above, in the middle, or below.
Two rows of nose-profile diagrams
The lower half of the page carries two banked rows of small nose profiles drawn within ruled boxes, illustrating the straight, concave, and convex types. Each box bears a short pen caption naming the type; these captions are not part of the transcribed text.