Mons^r. Le Brun's expressions of the passions of the soul / engraved by John Tinney.

This work, whose plates possibly date from 1730, probably was published in the 1730s or 1740s, but certainly before Tinney's death in 1761. It consists of an engraved title-plate, a Preface (with page numbered 2) and followed by 19 engravings numbered 3-21. Charles Le Brun lectured at the Academie Royale in Paris during the 1670s on the effect of passions on the human face and Tinney produced his engravings for the English market, probably based on prints by Jean Audran after the illustrations for Le Brun's lectures. The expressions ilustrated here are: Attention (pl. 3), Admiration (pl. 4), Admiration with Astonishment (pl. 5), Veneration (pl. 6), Rapture (pl. 7), Desire (pl. 8), Joy with Tranquility (pl. 9), Laughter (pl. 10), Acute Pain (pl. 11), Simple Bodily Pain (pl. 12), Sadness (pl. 13), Weeping (pl. 14), Compassion (pl. 15), Scorn (pl. 16), Horror (pl. 17), Terrour [sic] or Fright (pl. 18), Anger (pl. 19), Hatred or Jealousy (pl. 20), and Despair (pl. 21).