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001 $ 03/2161
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20201001094711.3
035 # # $z 15065
041 0 # $a fre
044 # # $a fr
245 0 4 $a Les Proportions Du Corps Humain, Mesurées sur les plus belles Figures de l'Antiquité.
260 # # $a A Paris, $b Chez Girard Audran, Graveur du Roy, ruë S. Jacques, aux deux Piliers d'or. $c MDCLXXXIII. Avec Privilege Du Roy. $c [1683]
300 # # $a [8] p., 28, [2] pl.; $c 413 mm. (Folio).
500 # # $a In both the Academy's copies two unnumbered plates have been inserted before the numbered plates 27, 28, and the unnumbered plates have been numbered 27, 28 in ink and plates 27, 28 have had their engraved numbers altered in in ink to 29, 30.
505 0 # $a [T.p.] - Preface - Avertissements; Extrait Du Privilege du Roy - [Pl. 1-30].
508 # # $a All plates are unsigned, apart from plates 27, 28 (altered in both Royal Academy copies to 29, 30), which are signed as designed by R. U(rbin). and engraved by G. Au.

Plate 1 carries the publisher's imprint of Audran; all others are engraved only 'Avec privilege (du Roi)' or similar.
510 0 # $a E. Ranfft and A. Hughes, edd., Sculpture and its reproductions (1997); F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the antique: the lure of classical sculpture 1500-1900 (1982).
520 2 # $a The plates are captioned and show the following statues, with their measurements:

1-4. Lacoon;

5-7. Farnese Hercules;

8-9. 'Pyrasme' [also known as 'Paetus and Arria' or a Gaul committing suicide];

10. 'terme Ouvrage Egyptien';

11-12. 'Antinous ... l'admirable' [Belvedere Antinous or Hermes];

13. 'La Paix des Grecs' [Castor and Pollux];

14. 'La Bergere Grecque' [Callipygian Venus];

15-16. 'Venus Aphrodite ... de Medicis';

17-20. 'Apollo pythien' [Apollo Belvedere];

21. 'fragment de l'antique';

22-23 'Mirmille' [Dying gladiator, or Dying Gaul];

24. 'grand enfant de Laocoon';

25. 'L'un des enfans de Laocoon';

26. [uncaptioned];

[27]. 'Parties du visage ... en la Statue d'Apollon Pythien';

[28]. 'parties du visage d'une Venus antique';

27, 28 (altered to '29', '30'). [uncaptioned; signed as drawn by Raphael].

The two plates showing 'Mirmille' are in reverse order, pl. 22 being captioned 'le meme' and pl. 23 'Mirmille'.

This work continued to be republished until 1855, and remained a standard manual for artists.
561 # # $a The interleaved copy is inscribed in ink on the title page, 'Given by R. Yeo RA'; Yeo's presentation was acknowledged 2 September 1769 (RAA CM I, 40). This copy is the one recorded in A Catalogue Of The Library In The Royal Academy, London (1802).

The second copy is recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1821.
562 # # $a [First, interleaved copy:] imperfect, lacking pl. 25. The blank leaf between pl. 2 and 3 carries carries a pencil drawing of a man in 18th-century clothes, seated and wearing a short apron; additional measurements have been indicated in ink on plates 3, 4, 17, 19.
563 # # $a [First, interleaved copy:] contemporary mottled calf; rebacked and recornered in 1997 by Clare Prince, retaining earlier darkened handwritten paper spine-label lettered 'Proportions du corps humain'.

[Second copy:] contemporary calf; gilt-decorated spine, red morocco spine-label lettered 'Prop Du Corps Huma'.
600 1 4 $a Hercules (Roman deity)
600 1 4 $a Laocoön (legendary character)
600 1 4 $a Apollo (Greek deity)
600 1 4 $a Venus (Roman deity)
653 # # $a Sculpture, Greek - Statues - History
653 # # $a Anatomy, artistic - Proportion - History
655 # 4 $a Manuals - Pattern drawings - Instructional materials - France - 17th century
655 # 4 $a Pictorial works - France - 17th century
700 1 # $a Audran, Gerard $e draughtsman $e engraver $e publisher
700 0 # $a Raphael $e source artist
700 1 # $a Yeo, Richard $e previous owner $e donor
700 1 # $a Prince, clare $e binder
852 8 # $d [First, interleaved, copy:] 1802: D-5-06; 1821: C-4-08.
852 8 # $d [Second copy:] 1821: C-4-09.