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  • A compendious treatise of anatomy : adapted to the arts of designing, painting, and sculpture, on ten folio copper-plates; and in which the external muscles and bones of the human body are represented as they appear in the best chosen attitudes, when cleared of the skin, the membrana adiposa, and the veins and arteries that lie on their surface.
  • Hercules (Heracles). Line engraving by J. Tinney, 1743.
  • A man with a dagger or foreshortened sword. Line engraving by J. Tinney, 1743.
  • Groups of men gather at an execution. Line engraving by J. Tinney, 1741.
  • A compendious treatise of anatomy : adapted to the arts of designing, painting, and sculpture, on ten folio copper-plates; and in which the external muscles and bones of the human body are represented as they appear in the best chosen attitudes, when cleared of the skin, the membrana adiposa, and the veins and arteries that lie on their surface.
  • An écorché figure with left arm raised, seen from the left side. Line engraving by J. Tinney, after A. Vesalius, 1743.
  • A skeleton leaning on an inscribed tombstone, resting his right hand on a skull. Line engraving by J. Tinney, 1743, after A. Vesalius, 1543.
  • A skeleton leaning on a spade. Line engraving by J. Tinney, 1743, after A. Vesalius, 1543.
  • An écorché figure gripping a piece of cloth, with left leg bent, seen from behind. Line engraving by J. Tinney, after W. Cowper, 1743.
  • An écorché figure seen from the front. Line engraving by J. Tinney, 1743, after A. Vesalius, 1543.
  • An écorché figure, seen from the back, with an additional seated figure in the bottom left-hand corner. Line engraving by J. Tinney, after A. Vesalius, 1743.
  • A skeleton with right hand raised, seen from behind. Line engraving by J. Tinney, after W. Cowper, 1743.
  • An écorché figure gripping a piece of cloth, with left leg bent, seen from behind. Line engraving by J. Tinney, 1743, after W. Cowper.
  • A skeleton leaning on a spade. Line engraving by J. Tinney, after A. Vesalius, 1743.
  • A skeleton with right hand raised, seen from behind. Line engraving by J. Tinney, 1743, after W. Cowper.
  • A skeleton leaning on an inscribed tombstone, resting his right hand on a skull. Line engraving by J. Tinney, after A. Vesalius, 1743.
  • An écorché figure holding a spear, with left leg bent, seen from the right side. Line engraving by J. Tinney, 1743, after W. Cowper.
  • An écorché figure seen from the front. Line engraving by J. Tinney, after A. Vesalius, 1743.
  • An écorché figure seen from behind, with an additional seated figure in the bottom left-hand corner. Line engraving by J. Tinney, 1743, after A. Vesalius, 1543.
  • Frontispiece to an English edition of Charles Le Brun's 'Expressions of the passions of the soul' (left); a face expressing attention. Engraving, c. 1760, after C. Le Brun.
  • Two faces expressing veneration and rapture. Etching, c. 1760, after C. Le Brun.
  • A woman's face expressing desire (left) and a man's face expressing 'joy with tranquility' (right). Engraving, c. 1760, after C. Le Brun.
  • A face expressing scorn (left) and a face expressing horror (right). Engraving, c. 1760, after C. Le Brun.
  • A face expressing hatred or jealousy (left); a face with hair on end expressing despair. Engraving, c. 1760, after C. Le Brun.
  • A frightened and an angry face, left and right respectively. Engraving, c. 1760, after C. Le Brun.
  • The face of a young man in a state of attention. Engraving by J. Tinney, ca. 1730/1740, after C. Le Brun.
  • Two female faces expressing admiration (left) and admiration with astonishment (right). Engraving, c. 1760, after C. Le Brun.
  • A laughing face (left) and a face expressing acute pain (right). Engraving, c. 1760, after C. Le Brun.
  • A weeping face (left) and a face expressing compassion (right). Engraving, c. 1760, after C. Le Brun.
  • A face expressing 'simple bodily pain' (left) and a face (right) expressing sadness. Engraving, c. 1760, after C. Le Brun.