Anatomy For The Use Of Artists. By Richard Lewis Bean, Late House-Surgeon At King's College And Charing-Cross Hospitals. - Illustrated By Several Plates. -
RA Collection: Book
Record number
07/2044
Author
Imprint
London:: Henry Renshaw, 356, Strand., MDCCCXLI.
Physical Description
47, [1] p., 10 pl.; 237 mm. (Octavo.)
Contents
[T.p., dedic.] - Preface - Contents - Introduction - [Plates, with descriptive texts] - [Text]; [colophon].
Responsibility Note
No plate is signed by draughtsman or engraver. Each carries the imprint of the intaglio-printers, 'M & N Hanhart Lith Printers'.
The text printer is named in the colophon: 'T.C. Savill, Printer, 107, St. Martin's Lane.'
The work is dedicated by the Author to William Fergusson, F.R.S.E.
References
M. Cazort et al., The Ingenious Machine of Nature: Four Centuries Of Art And Anatomy [exhibition catalogue] (1996).
Summary Note
Many artists were dissuaded from reading books on anatomy by their complexity. Here, in an attempt at simplification, Bean uses a new system of notation, labelling muscles and bones by their initials instead of numbers and single letters - but this, too, sometimes leads to unwieldy results.
Provenance
The front free-endpaper is inscribed in ink, 'Presented by R L Bean Esqr'. Presented by the author in 1841 (acknowledged RA Council Minutes, IX, 206).
Binding Note
19th-century brown cloth-covered boards, upper and lower covers decorated in blind; rebacked in 20th century, spine lettered 'Anatomy R. Bean'.
Subject
Anatomy
Manuals - Great Britain - 19th century
Pictorial works - Lithographs - Great Britain - 19th century
Manuals - Great Britain - 19th century
Pictorial works - Lithographs - Great Britain - 19th century
Contributors
Richard Lewis Bean, previous owner, donor
Henry Renshaw, publisher
Thomas Choate Savill, printer
Michael Hanhart, lithographic printer
Nicholas Hanhart, lithographic printer
William Fergusson, dedicatee
M. and N. Hanhart (London), lithographic printer
Henry Renshaw, publisher
Thomas Choate Savill, printer
Michael Hanhart, lithographic printer
Nicholas Hanhart, lithographic printer
William Fergusson, dedicatee
M. and N. Hanhart (London), lithographic printer