The Anatomy of the Horse (Dover Anatomy for Artists) - Softcover

Stubbs, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486234029 ISBN 13: 9780486234021

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc., 1976

Synopsis

This masterpiece of animal anatomy contains 36 plates that reproduce Stubbs' etchings. Based on the artist's own dissections and outline views, the illustrations feature extensive explanatory text. Full reproduction of 1766 edition.

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Review:

"'The subtle forms and modelled curves and planes in a skeleton were to George Stubbs what a symphony is to a musician.' Oxford Companion to Art 'The most unique thing of its kind ever compiled. This heroic effort, an epic of the eighteenth century, is as great and unselfish a work as anything could be.' Sir Alfred Munnings"

From the Back Cover:

George Stubbs (1724-1806), an English artist famous for his portraits of thoroughbred race horses and for other animal paintings, was also the author of the illustrations and text of The Anatomy of the Horse, one of the truly remarkable anatomical studies of its subject. First published in 1766, Stubbs' work was based on numerous dissections, a practice far from generally accepted in his century. Stubbs' horses, shown in this edition on 36 large plates, are memorable for their uncanny life-like quality, nobility, and extreme anatomical precision.In this systematic study, Stubbs depicts the horse in three positions―side, front, and back. He first presents the skeleton alone in each of these three positions, then devotes to each position five studies of layers of muscles, fascias, ligaments, nerves, arteries, veins, glands, and cartilages. Accompanying each of these eighteen etchings is a schematic etched outline with lettered parts that are keyed to the identifying text. The text is given both in Stubbs' original version and in a modernized version prepared in the Thirties by J. C. McCunn and C. W. Ottaway.
Unabridged, slightly altered republication of 1938 edition by G. Heywood Hill, Ltd., London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0486234029
• ISBN 13: 9780486234021
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 121