A compendious treatise of anatomy, adapted to the arts of designing, painting, and sculpture on ten folio copper plates : and in which the external muscles and bones of the human body are represented as they appear in the best chosen attitudes, when cleared of the skin, the membrana adiposa, and the veins and arteries that lie on their surface : designed and composed by the aid of the best anatomical tables extant : with a concise and clear explanation, showing the names of the different parts, with their origin, insertion, and use : to which have been added, the names as adopted in modern surgery : a work not only useful, but absolutely necessary, to painters, statuaries, professors, and learners, of drawing and design / by J. Tinney.

Tinney, John, -1761, A compendious treatise of anatomy, adapted to the arts of designing, painting, and sculpture on ten folio copper plates , 1833

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Creator:: Tinney, John, -1761
Title(s):: A compendious treatise of anatomy, adapted to the arts of designing, painting, and sculpture on ten folio copper plates : and in which the external muscles and bones of the human body are represented as they appear in the best chosen attitudes, when cleared of the skin, the membrana adiposa, and the veins and arteries that lie on their surface : designed and composed by the aid of the best anatomical tables extant : with a concise and clear explanation, showing the names of the different parts, with their origin, insertion, and use : to which have been added, the names as adopted in modern surgery : a work not only useful, but absolutely necessary, to painters, statuaries, professors, and learners, of drawing and design / by J. Tinney.
Additional Title(s):: Treatise of anatomy
Published/Created:: London : Printed for R. H. Laurie, No. 53, Fleet Street, 1833.
Physical Description:: [6] p., X leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
NC760 .T56 1833+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3580562
Classification:: Books
Notes:: Anatomical drawing book based on the anatomical drawings of Frank Nicholls, F.R.S., Professor of anatomy at Oxford.
Printed by J. Rider, Little-Britain, London.
Spine title: Treatise of anatomy.
Bridson, E190
BAC: British Art Center copy from which pagination is taken may be missing a final leaf of letterpress explanation text.
Subject Terms:: Anatomy, Artistic -- Study and teaching.
Drawing books -- Specimens.
Etching -- Specimens -- 1833.
Human anatomy.
Laurie, R. H. -- Publisher.
Rider J. -- Printer.
Contributors:: Nicholls, Frank, 1699-1778.
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