Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1129

JOHN FLAXMAN (1755-1826). Anatomical studies of the bones and muscles, for the use of artists. London: M. A. Nattali, 1833. 13 pp., front. (port.), 21 plates; 48.9 cm.

The first two plates were drawn and lithographed by William Robertson and contain six whole figures, viz.: the skeleton and the muscleman, each from three different viewpoints. . . . The nineteen plates following these were drawn by Flaxman and engraved by Henry Landseer. The first three are finished in aquatint and pertain to osteology. . . . The sixteen plates following are done in the easy, unconventional style of chalk-drawings and pertain wholly to myology. . . . Flaxman's drawings are all unconventional, clever, and true to nature (Choulant-Frank, p. 341).

Cited references: Choulant-Frank, pp. 341-342; Garrison-Morton 411; Wellcome III, p. 31

Gift of John Martin, M.D.