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1. Proposals for publishing, a comparative anatomical exposition of the structure of the human body, with that of a tyger and a common fowl : in thirty tables, two copper-plates to each table, 20 inches by 15 : forming six numbers, ten plates to each number / the whole executed by George Stubbs, author of "The anatomy of the horse."

Proposals for publishing, a comparative anatomical exposition of the structure of the human body, with that of a tyger and a common fowl : in thirty tables, two copper-plates to each table, 20 inches by 15 : forming six numbers, ten plates to each number / the whole executed by George Stubbs, author of "The anatomy of the horse."
Creator:
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806
Date:
[1802]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 29 x 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The anatomy of the horse : including a particular description of the bones, cartilages, muscles, fascias, ligaments, nerves, arteries, veins, and glands / illustrated by twenty-four plates by George Stubbs, painter.

The anatomy of the horse : including a particular description of the bones, cartilages, muscles, fascias, ligaments, nerves, arteries, veins, and glands / illustrated by twenty-four plates by George Stubbs, painter.
Creator:
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806
Date:
1853
Physical Description:
68 p., [48] leaves of plates : ill. ; 46 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Principles of beauty, relative to the human head / by Alexander Cozens.

Principles of beauty, relative to the human head / by Alexander Cozens.
Creator:
Cozens, Alexander, 1717–1786
Date:
MDCCLXXVIII [1778]
Physical Description:
[6], 15, [5], 15, [1] p, [3], 2-17 leaves of plates : ill. (engravings) ; 53 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Juliens' New progressive drawing book of the human figure / drawn from nature by Monsieur Julien ... ; lithographed by Thomas Fairland.

Juliens' New progressive drawing book of the human figure / drawn from nature by Monsieur Julien ... ; lithographed by Thomas Fairland.
Creator:
Fairland, Thomas, 1804–1852
Date:
[18--]
Physical Description:
[2] leaves, 24 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 32 x 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. A book of drawing, limning, washing or colouring of maps and prints, or, The young-man's time well spent ...

A book of drawing, limning, washing or colouring of maps and prints, or, The young-man's time well spent ...
Date:
1647
Physical Description:
[3], 18 [i.e. 33] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The works of the late Professor Camper : on the connexion between the science of anatomy and the art of drawing, painting, statuary ... : in two books : containing a treatise on the natural difference of features in persons of different countries and periods of life, and on beauty as exhibited in ancient sculpture : with a new method of sketching heads, natural features, and portraits of individuals, with accuracy ... : illustrated with seventeen plates explanatory of the professor's leading principals / translated from the Dutch by T. Cogan ...

The works of the late Professor Camper : on the connexion between the science of anatomy and the art of drawing, painting, statuary ... : in two books : containing a treatise on the natural difference of features in persons of different countries and periods of life, and on beauty as exhibited in ancient sculpture : with a new method of sketching heads, natural features, and portraits of individuals, with accuracy ... : illustrated with seventeen plates explanatory of the professor's leading principals / translated from the Dutch by T. Cogan ...
Creator:
Camper, Petrus, 1722–1789
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
xxiii, [1], 175 p. [18] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Comparative anatomical exposition of the structure of the human body with that of a tiger and a common fowl : manuscript.

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Creator:
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806
Date:
ca. [1798?]
Physical Description:
4 volumes ; 26-34 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Albert Durer revived, or, A book of drawing, limning, washing, or colouring of maps and prints : and the art of painting, with the names and mixtures of colours used by the picture-drawers : with directions how to lay and paint pictures upon glass or, The young man's time well spent.

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Date:
1731
Physical Description:
21, [1] p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The horse; its action and anatomy, by an artist, Lowes D. Luard.

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Creator:
Luard, Lowes Dalbiac
Date:
[1935]
Physical Description:
2 p. ℓ., ix-xiii, [2], 122 p. illus., plates (11 col.) 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The school of Raphael, or, The student's guide to expression in historical painting : illustrated by examples engraved by Duchange, and others, under the inspection of Sir Nicholas Dorigny, from his own drawings, after the most celebrated heads in the cartoons at the Queen's palace : to which are now added, the outlines of each head, and also several plates of the most celebrated antique statues, engraved by an eminent artist : with instructions for young students in the art of designing : and the passions, as characterised by Raphael in the cartons / described and explained by Benjamin Ralph.

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Creator:
Ralph, Benjamin, active 1763–1770
Date:
MDCCLXXXII [1782]
Physical Description:
21, [1] pages, [102] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 43 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Progressive studies in cattle / by Dennis Dighton ; dedicated by permission to the Right Honourable the Earl of Glengall by his most obedient & obliged servants, the publisher.

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Creator:
Dighton, Denis, 1792–1827
Date:
May, 1820
Physical Description:
[6] pt. : chiefly ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Lavater's looking-glass; or, Essays on the face of animated nature, from man to plants ... By Lavater, Sue & Co. ...

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Creator:
Lavater, Sue, & Co
Date:
1800
Physical Description:
xii, vi, [7]-216 p. front. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Albert Durer revived, or, A book of drawing, limning, washing, or colouring of maps and prints : and the art of painting, with the names and mixtures of colours used by the picture-drawers : with directions how to lay and paint pictures upon glass, or, The young-man's time well spent ...

No cover image available
Date:
[1698]
Physical Description:
[3], 21 [i.e. 40] p. : ill., port. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Julien's studies of heads : selected from paintings of eminent artists, or drawn from nature / by Monsieur Julien, professor of drawing in the Military School, Paris ; lithographed by Thomas Fairland.

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Creator:
Julien, Bernard-Romain, 1802–1871
Date:
[ca. 1858]
Physical Description:
[2] leaves, 24 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 26 x 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Woman in detail : a scientific survey / by Patrick Miller ; with drawings by Mark Severin.

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Creator:
Miller, Patrick, 1885–1949
Date:
1947
Physical Description:
63, [1] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Rudiments of drawing the human figure : from Cipriani, Guido, Poussin, Rubens / drawn & engraved by T. Cheesman.

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Creator:
Cheesman, Thomas, 1760–
Date:
[1816]
Physical Description:
[11] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 26 x 38 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. The English academy : a drawing book containing variety of examples of the external parts of men, women, and childrens bodies : with the shapes of several creatures frequently used amongst heralds, gold-smiths, &c. : likewise the arts of drawing, etching, engraving in copper and wood, painting and limning ... / P.L., H.G., P.R., H.B.

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Creator:
P. L
Date:
1672
Physical Description:
[4], 36 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The natural principles of beauty, as developed in the human figure. By D. R. Hay, F.R.S.E.

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Creator:
Hay, D. R. (David Ramsay), 1798–1866
Date:
1852
Physical Description:
48 p. front., plates. 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. A book of drawing, limning, washing or colouring of maps and prints : and the art of painting with the names and mixtures of colours used by the picture-drawers, or, The young-man's time well spent ...

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Date:
1660
Physical Description:
[5], 20 [i.e. 39] p. : ill., port. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Artistic anatomy of the human figure / by Henry Warren ... ; with twenty-three illustrations drawn on wood by the author.

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Creator:
Warren, Henry, 1794–1879
Date:
[18--]
Physical Description:
72 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. The geometric beauty of the human figure defined; to which is prefixed a system of aesthetic proportion applicable to architecture and the other formative arts, by D.R. Hay ...

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Creator:
Hay, D. R. (David Ramsay), 1798–1866
Date:
1851
Physical Description:
2 p. ., [vii]-xiv p. 1 ., 68 p. diagrs. on xvi pl. 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Sketches of cattle : the whole illustrative of landscape scenery / by Henry Alken.

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Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:
[1819]
Physical Description:
[2] pt. : all ill. ; 28 x 45 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Bowles's Passions of the soul : represented in several heads : engraved in the manner of drawing in chalk / from the designs of the late celebrated Monsieur Le Brun.

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Creator:
Le Brun, Charles, Sir, 1619–1690
Date:
[1800?]
Physical Description:
4 p., 20 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. A series of lithographic drawings illustrative of the relation between the human physiognomy and that of the brute creation / from designs by Charles Le Brun ; with remarks on the system.

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Creator:
Le Brun, Charles, Sir, 1619–1690
Date:
1827
Physical Description:
[4], 7 p., [37] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 59 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Anthropometria, sive, Statura hominis a nativitate ad consummatum aetatis incrementum ad dimensionum & proportionum regulas discriminata = Oder, Statur des Menschen von der Geburt an nach seinem Wachsthum und verschiedenen Alter nach den Regeln der Proportion / accurat abgezeichnet und allen Liebhabern dieser edlen Wissenschafften zu höchst-nutzlichem Gebrauch an Tag gegeben und in Verlag genommen von Johann Georg Bergmüller ...

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Creator:
Bergmüller, Johann Georg, 1688–1762
Date:
1723
Physical Description:
[4] pages, [1], 11 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 44 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Introduction to the study of the anatomy of the human body: particularly designed for the use of painters, sculptors, and artists in general / translated from the German of John Henry Lavater ; and illustrated by twenty-seven lithographic prints.

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Creator:
Lavater, J. H. (Johann Heinrich), 1768–1819
Date:
1824
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Essays on the anatomy and philosophy of expression by Charles Bell.

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Creator:
Bell, Charles, Sir, 1774–1842
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
2 p.., [vii]-xviii p., 1 ., 218 p. ill., 6 plates (1 fold.) 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Essays on the anatomy of expression in painting / by Charles Bell.

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Creator:
Bell, Charles, Sir, 1774–1842
Date:
1806
Physical Description:
ix, 186 pages, 6 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Anatomy for artists / by John Marshall ; illustrated by two hundred original drawings by J.S. Cuthbert ; engraved by J. and G. Nicholls.

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Creator:
Marshall, John, 1818–1891
Date:
1878
Physical Description:
xiv, 436 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles J. Levy, transfer from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

30. The school of Raphael, or, The student's guide to expression in historical painting : illustrated by examples engraved by Duchange and others, under the inspection of Sir Nicholas Dorigny, from his own drawings after the most celebrated heads in the cartons at Hampton-Court : to which are now added, the outline of each head, and also several plates of the most celebrated antique statues, engraved by an eminent artist : with instructions for young students in the art of designing, and the passions, as characterised by Raphael in the cartons / described and explained by Benjamin Ralph.

No cover image available
Creator:
Ralph, Benjamin, active 1763–1770
Date:
MDCCLIX [1759]
Physical Description:
[2], 13, [2], 14-24 pages, XI, [1], 45 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 54 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. The anatomical works of George Stubbs / [text by] Terence Doherty.

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Creator:
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806
Date:
1974
Physical Description:
ix, 345 p. : chiefly ill., facsims., ports. (1 col.) ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

32. The anatomy of the horse / by George Stubbs ; original text and modern paraphrase by J. C. McCunn and C. W. Ottaway ; with a new introd. by Eleanor M. Garvey.

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Creator:
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806
Date:
1976
Physical Description:
121 p. : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

33. History and bibliography of anatomic illustration. Translated and annotated by Mortimer Frank. Further essays by Fielding H. Garrison, Mortimer Frank [and] Edward C. Streeter, with a new historical essay by Charles Singer and a bibliography of Mortimer Frank, by J. Christian Bay.

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Creator:
Choulant, Ludwig, 1791–1861
Date:
[1962, c1945]
Physical Description:
xxvii, 435 p. illus., plates, ports., diagrs., facsims, 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

34. Dr. William Hunter at the Royal Academy of Arts / edited by Martin Kemp.

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Date:
1975
Physical Description:
47 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

35. Art and anatomy in nineteenth century Britain : three studies / by Allister Neher.

Art and anatomy in nineteenth century Britain : three studies / by Allister Neher.
Creator:
Neher, Allister
Date:
2022
Physical Description:
x, 137 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Reference Library