ANATOMY IN ART: A Practical Text Book for the Art Student in the Study of the Human Form. To Which is Appended a Desctription and Analysis of the ART OF MODELLING and a Chapter on the Laws of Proportion as Applied to the Human Figure
by Hartley, Jonathan Scott
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- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
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About This Item
Press of Styles and Cash, New York, 1891. 9.25" X 6" in dark green cloth with a gilt skeleton on the front cover. This is a book of human anatomy for art students. It is filled with detailed drawings of the bones and musculature. Book is soiled and fraying at spine ends and corner tips. Front hinge cracked. A few marginal notes in pencil, cut out of nude figures on flyleaf, possible self portrait photo, place and date inside front cover. More nude (Natives?) inside back cover. 113pp, including 2 fold-out diagrams.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket.
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- Title
- ANATOMY IN ART: A Practical Text Book for the Art Student in the Study of the Human Form. To Which is Appended a Desctription and Analysis of the ART OF MODELLING and a Chapter on the Laws of Proportion as Applied to the Human Figure
- Author
- Hartley, Jonathan Scott
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Press of Styles and Cash, New York
- Date Published
- 1891
- Keywords
- LIFE DRAWING, ART, ANATOMY, THE HUMAN FIGURE,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art Instruction;
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