Johann Heinrich Lips, Monument to Johann Caspar Lavater. 1st quarter 19th century. Johann Heinrich Lips1758 Kloten - 1817 Zurich. Copper engraving on handmade paper. Inscribed below the image "H.Lips del. et sculp. Mounted in a passepartout at the upper corners. Johann Caspar Lavater (1741 Zurich - 1801 ibid.) was a reformed Swiss pastor, philosopher and writer in the time of the Enlightenment as well as a main representative of physiognomic research. Clearly creased. O. and lower margin more foxed as well as with lesions (tear max. 1 cm) and clearly creased. Tear at right margin (ca. 2 cm). Dimensions: pl. 38 x 26.5 cm, sheet 83 x 55 cm, psp. 62 x 42 cm. Johann Heinrich Lips 1758 Kloten - 1817 Zurich Lips was an engraver and painter who lived in Mannheim and Düsseldorf, where he got the title of a professor. In 1782 he went to Rome to draw at the Vatican and at the Farnesina among other things after Raphael. On another trip to Rome from 1786 to 1789 he established friendly relations with Goethe. From 1785 he devoted himself mainly to painting and became professor at the Weimar drawing academy in 1989. In 1794 Lips retired to Zurich for health reasons.