From J. V. Carus 11 October 1872
Leipzig,
Oct 11. 1872
My dear Sir,
If your 12th. sheet (N) is not yet printed off, you might perhaps still be able to alter a misprint, which puzzled me a great deal On p 184 line 6 from the bottom you mention a statue (besides the Laocoon) called the Arretino. In all probability you were thinking of that kneeling statue in Florence, which we generally call the “Grinder”. This is the Arrotino.1 If it was not for the double r one might think (as it occurred to me) of some one from Arezzo. In this moment I cannot find out a figure of the Arrotino full “en face”, but according to an outline drawing “en profile”, he exhibits the action of the grief muscles.
Believe me | My dear Sir | Yours very sincerely, | Prof J. Victor Carus
In haste!
CD annotations
Footnotes
Bibliography
Duchenne, Guillaume Benjamin Amand. 1862. Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électro-physiologique de l’expression des passions. 1 vol. and ‘Atlas’ of plates. Paris: Ve Jules Renouard, Libraire.
Expression: The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.
Summary
Corrects CD’s spelling of the name of a statue: the Arrotino (spelled "Arretino" by CD) [see Expression, p. 184, on grief-muscles].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8554
- From
- Julius Victor Carus
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Leipzig
- Source of text
- DAR 161: 85
- Physical description
- ALS 1p †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8554,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8554.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20
