Wells, Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts), 1820-1875 · New York, Fowler and Wells · leaf 279
racing all the shades of brown,auburn, red, golden, and yellow, according to the temperament. The ancient Jews esteemed black hair the most beautiful,but the Greeks andRomans greatly ad-mired yellow or gold-en hair, both onwomen and on men;and many of the his-toric characters ofantiquity are… … Fig. 377.—-Lucrezia. Borgia. beautiful golden hair. Leigh Hunt, in one of his essays onfemale beauty, assures us, on the evidence of his own eyes,that the hair of Lucrezia was of that kind properly calledgolden. Mr. Hunt was in possession of an interesting relic ofmortality—a solitary hair of this…
Physiognomy · Phrenology
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