Science Art: Figure 134, from “Face,” by Richard Partridge, in The Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology, 1839

Things will get better.

This somber fellow illustrated the “Face” article in Robert Bentley Todd’s Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology. He was drawn by Richard Partridge, a (brace yourself) crime-fighting medical doctor of the Victorian era, who learned about illustration from his brother, John Partridge, portrait painter-extraordinary to the queen.

Basically, he seems to have been a steampunk Buckaroo Banzai.

(Image from Wikimedia Commons.)