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 ...
Published / Created:
London : Printed for C. Dilly, in the Poultry, 1794.
Physical Description:
xxiii, [1], 175 p. [18] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:582290
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Plates engraved by Thomas Kirk; portrait after Reinier Vinkeles.
Exhibition History:
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
Subject Terms:
Dilly, C. -- Publisher. | Anatomy, Artistic. | Physiognomy -- Early works to 1800. | Drawing -- Technique. | Stipple engraving -- Specimens -- 1794. | Engraving -- Specimens -- 1794.
Contributors:
Cogan, T. (Thomas), 1736–1818. | Kirk, Thomas, 1765?-1797, engraver.