The anatomy of painting, or, A short and easy introduction to anatomy :
being a new edition, on a smaller scale, of six tables of Albinus, with their linear figures : also, a new translation of Albinus's history of that work, and of his index to the six tables : to which are added the anatomy of Celsus, with notes, and the physiology of Cicero : with an introduction, giving a short view of picturesque anatomy /
by John Brisbane, M.D.

Description

Main Author

Albinus, Bernhard Siegfried, 1697-1770.

Related Names

Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Celsus, Aulus Cornelius.
Caldwall, James, 1739-1819, engraver.
Benazech, Peter, 1730?-1798, engraver.
Brisbane, John, -1776?

Language(s)

English

Published

London : Printed by George Scott, and sold by T. Cadell, bookseller ..., 1769.

Subjects

Drawing > Drawing / Technique > Drawing / Technique / Early works to 1800.
Figure drawing > Figure drawing / Early works to 1800.
Human anatomy > Human anatomy / Atlases > Human anatomy / Atlases / Early works to 1800.
Anatomy, Artistic > Anatomy, Artistic / Early works to 1800.
Engravings > Engravings / England > Engravings / England / 18th century.

Note

Plates engraved by Peter Paul Benazech and James Caldwall.
Contains translations of selections from De medicina by Aulus Cornelius Celsus and De natura deorum libri tres by Marcus Tullius Cicero.

Physical Description

xxvi, [5]-58, [2], 59-76 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 41 cm. (fol.)

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