THE PROFESSOR
Men who study assiduously a certain branch of the animal kingdom sometimes grow to look more or less like the things they contemplate.
This etymologist has cultivated a family resemblance to the insects that he studies.
The inquisitive eyes and the impertinent nose might well become a mosquito.
The nose is elongated with nose-paste.
The groundwork of No. 3 is used. The shadows and wrinkles are of lake mixed with a little blue. The high lights are of pale yellow. The eyebrows are of grey made by mixing black and white paint. The eyelashes are thickly coated with white.
The face is treated with very light powder.
The spectacles, unkempt hair and velvet cap, all give characteristic touches.
Particular attention is called to the hands. They are shadowed at all spaces that occur between the bones with a mixture of lake and brown. Veins are outlined in blue and high lights on the bones and veins are accentuated with pale yellow.