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1. A new and compendious treatise of anatomy and proportions of the human figure : adapted to the arts of designing, painting, and sculpture : illustrated with copper-plates : designed principally for the information of such ladies as practise the above arts : and absolutely necessary to all students, who wish to acquire correctness in the outline of the human figure / by W.F. Wells.

A new and compendious treatise of anatomy and proportions of the human figure : adapted to the arts of designing, painting, and sculpture : illustrated with copper-plates : designed principally for the information of such ladies as practise the above arts : and absolutely necessary to all students, who wish to acquire correctness in the outline of the human figure / by W.F. Wells.
Creator:
Wells, William Frederick, 1762–1836
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
[4], 19, [1] page, [6] leaves of plates : illlustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Panharmonicon : designed as an illustration of an engraved plate, in which is attempted to be proved, that the principles of harmony more or less prevail throughout the whole system of nature, but more especially in the human frame and that where these principles can be applied to works of art, they excite the pleasing and satisfying ideas of proportion and beauty / by F. Webb.

Panharmonicon : designed as an illustration of an engraved plate, in which is attempted to be proved, that the principles of harmony more or less prevail throughout the whole system of nature, but more especially in the human frame and that where these principles can be applied to works of art, they excite the pleasing and satisfying ideas of proportion and beauty / by F. Webb.
Creator:
Webb, Francis, 1735–1815
Date:
[1815]
Physical Description:
45 p., [4] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. 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

4. 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

5. The anatomy of the bones and muscles : exhibiting the parts as they appear on dissection, and more particularly in the living figure; as applicable to the fine arts : designed for the use of artists, and members of the Artist's anatomical society : in two parts / by George Simpson ; member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London; lecturer on anatomy to the Artist's Anatomical Society, &c. ; illustrated with highly-finished lithographic impressions.

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Creator:
Simpson, George
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
[4], iii, [7], v, [1], 140 p., xiv, xiv, [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. 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

7. Elements for drawing / designed and engraved by Francis Bartolozzi ... The originals in the possession of M. Bovi.

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Creator:
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815
Date:
1792
Physical Description:
[1] leaf, [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 x 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. 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

9. 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

10. On the science of those proportions by which the human head and countenance as represented in works of ancient Greek art are distinguished from those of ordinary nature. By D. R. Hay.

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Creator:
Hay, D. R. (David Ramsay), 1798–1866
Date:
1849
Physical Description:
xiv p., 1 leaf, 80 p. 1 leaf. XXV plates. 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. 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

12. Turn over darling.

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Creator:
King, Ronald, 1932–
Date:
c1990
Physical Description:
[6] folded sheets ([24] p.) : chiefly ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ronald King

13. Thirty four lessons for drawing the human figure : engraved from the original drawings of Bartolozzi and adapted to the use of students in the polite arts.

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Creator:
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815
Date:
[1828]
Physical Description:
[34] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A new drawing book of heads : from the cartoons at Hampton Court ...

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Date:
[17--]
Physical Description:
6 leaves : all ill. ; 23 x 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Thirty four lessons for drawing the human figure : engraved from the original drawings of Bartolozzi and adapted to the use of students in the polite arts.

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Creator:
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815
Date:
[ca. 1828]
Physical Description:
[34] leavesof plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The triumph of painting.

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Creator:
Grignion, Charles, 1721–1810
Date:
[1794]
Physical Description:
38 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 37 x 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Artistic and picturesque groups for the embellishment of landscape : in a series of about one thousand subjects : comprising the most interesting accessories to rural and domestic scenery; shipping and craft; rural sports, pastimes and occupations; naval, military and civil employments; implements of trade, commerce and agriculture; etc. : the whole forming an excyclopaedia of illustration of the arts, agriculture, manufactures, &c., of Great Britain / accurately drawn from nature, and etched by W.H. Pyne ; and aquatinted by J. Hill.

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Creator:
Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
[83] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Man abandoned by colour : Man abandoned by space : Man abandoned.

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Creator:
Fairhurst, Angus, 1966–2008
Date:
1996
Physical Description:
[26] p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ridinghouse Editions