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001 $ 03/6634
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20220113130255.4
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Sharpe
245 1 0 $a Elements Of Anatomy; Designed For The Use Of Students In The Fine Arts. By James Birch Sharpe, Member Of The Royal College Of Surgeons, And Student In The Royal Academy Of Arts.
260 # # $a London: $b Printed For R. Hunter, (Successor To Mr. Johnson) No. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard. $c 1818.
300 # # $a [8], 68 p., 5 pl.; $c 235 mm. (Octavo).
505 0 # $a [T.p., dedic.] - Errata - [Text] - Appendix, Description Of The Plates; [colophon]. - [Plates].
508 # # $a The plates and title-page vignette are unsigned.

The printer is named on the verso of the title-page and in the colophon: 'Printed by J. McCreery, Black-Horse-Court, London'.

The work is dedicated by the author to Henry Fuseli, 'A.M. Royal Academician, Keeper Of The Royal Academy Of Arts, Professor Of Painting. &c. ... As A Testimony Of The Great Advantages And High Honour Derived From His Invaluable Instruction, In The Royal Academy of Arts'.
510 0 # $a M. Cazort & al., The ingenious machine of nature: four centuries of art and anatomy [exhibition catalogue] (1996), p. 66, 222; A. Darlington, The Royal Academy of Arts and its anatomical teachings [dissertation, London Univy.] (1990).
520 2 # $a In his Introduction the author states - in opposition to Sir Anthony Carlisle, Professor of Anatomy at the Royal Academy from 1808 to 1824 - that 'dissection is necessary to the artist'. He adds that he has made frequent reference to the 'Gladiator repugnans' or 'Warrior of Agasias' (the ancient sculpture, generally known as the 'Borghese Gladiator' or 'Borghese Warrior'); an écorché of which he presents as his Plate 4. This famous work was praised by other writers on anatomy, such as Cowper, Salvage and Del Medico.
533 # # $n Available on microfiche (Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey, 1994).
561 # # $a Presented to the Academy by the author, and acknowledged 5 November 1818 (RAA CM, VI, p. 13).
563 # # $a 20th-century half calf, marbled-papered boards; green morocco spine-label lettered 'Sharpe's Anatomy'.
653 # # $a Anatomy
653 # # $a Statues - Sculpture, Greek
655 # 4 $a Manuals - Great Britain - 19th century
655 # 4 $a Pictorial works - Great Britain - 19th century
700 1 # $a Hunter, Rowland $e publisher
700 1 # $a McCreery, John $e printer
700 1 # $a Fuseli, Henry $e dedicatee
700 1 # $a Sharpe $e previous owner $e donor
710 2 # $a Royal Academy of Arts (London) $b Keeper (1804-1825: Fuseli). $e dedicatee
710 2 # $a Royal Academy of Arts (London) $b Professor of Painting (1799-1805, 1810-1825: Fuseli). $e dedicatee
852 8 # $d 1821: 3-4-2