Retro NYT Quote of the Day

Famously, he made a beauty map of the British Isles — whenever he passed a woman on the street, he graded her beauty and secretly pricked a piece of paper to record it. (According to Galton, the most beautiful women could be found in London, and the ugliest in Aberdeen, a town in northern Scotland.)

Beauty is more than skin deep, but only kind of

The dissection of a young, beautiful woman directed by J. Ch. G. Lucae (1814-1885) in order to determine the ideal female proportions. Chalk drawing by J. H. Hasselhorst, 1864.