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Flaxman's new work. Dedicated, by permission, to Francis Chantrey, Esq. R.A. In royal folio, with twenty-one plates, and a portrait, by Clauson, price £1:4:0, cloth. Anatomical studies of the bones and muscles, for the use of artists, from drawings by the late John Flaxman, ... engraved by Henry Landseer: with two additional plates and explanatory notes, by William Robertson.
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[Anatomical studies. Advertisement]
Flaxman's new work. Dedicated, by permission, to Francis Chantrey, Esq. R.A. In royal folio, with twenty-one plates, and a portrait, by Clauson, price £1:4:0, cloth. Anatomical studies of the bones and muscles, for the use of artists, from drawings by the late John Flaxman, ... engraved by Henry Landseer: with two additional plates and explanatory notes, by William Robertson.
London (Place), published by M.A. Nattali,, [1832?].
[4] p. ; 23.2 cm. (4º)
Half sheet, folded, conjugate leaf blank. Printed on pink wove paper watermarked: 'H Mills / 1832'. 'To announce these exhibitions of muscular mechanism as the studies made by FLAXMAN for his own use and instruction, is to give them a practical recommendation superior to all critical eulogy. We have here the exemplification of his labours; the secret of his processes; and all that need be urged on the young Student is to follow in the Master's steps.' (p.[2]). The drawings upon which this posthumous work was based are in the Royal Academy's collection, having been inserted in a specially bound copy presented by the publisher to Sir Francis Chantrey, which was subsequently purchased by the Academy for 10 guineas in 1885.
Binding Loose bifolium.
Reference Number 2269
Additional Names Robertson, William; Landseer, Sir Edwin Henry (1802--1873)
[Anatomical studies. Advertisement]
Flaxman's new work. Dedicated, by permission, to Francis Chantrey, Esq. R.A. In royal folio, with twenty-one plates, and a portrait, by Clauson, price £1:4:0, cloth. Anatomical studies of the bones and muscles, for the use of artists, from drawings by the late John Flaxman, ... engraved by Henry Landseer: with two additional plates and explanatory notes, by William Robertson.
London (Place), published by M.A. Nattali,, [1832?].
[4] p. ; 23.2 cm. (4º)
Half sheet, folded, conjugate leaf blank. Printed on pink wove paper watermarked: 'H Mills / 1832'. 'To announce these exhibitions of muscular mechanism as the studies made by FLAXMAN for his own use and instruction, is to give them a practical recommendation superior to all critical eulogy. We have here the exemplification of his labours; the secret of his processes; and all that need be urged on the young Student is to follow in the Master's steps.' (p.[2]). The drawings upon which this posthumous work was based are in the Royal Academy's collection, having been inserted in a specially bound copy presented by the publisher to Sir Francis Chantrey, which was subsequently purchased by the Academy for 10 guineas in 1885.
Binding Loose bifolium.
Reference Number 2269
Additional Names Robertson, William; Landseer, Sir Edwin Henry (1802--1873)