The works of the late Professor Camper : on the connexion between the science of anatomy and the arts of drawing, painting, statuary &c. &c. ; containing a treatise on the natural difference of features in persons of different countries and periods of life, and on beauty, as exhibited in ancient sculpture ; with a new method of sketching heads, national features, and portraits of individuals, with accuracy, &c. &c.. / ...by T. Cogan.

  • Camper, Petrus, 1722-1789.
Date:
1821
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The works of the late Professor Camper : on the connexion between the science of anatomy and the arts of drawing, painting, statuary &c. &c. ; containing a treatise on the natural difference of features in persons of different countries and periods of life, and on beauty, as exhibited in ancient sculpture ; with a new method of sketching heads, national features, and portraits of individuals, with accuracy, &c. &c.. / ...by T. Cogan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    which they deemed conducive to the improvement of tafte in the higher branches of painting, and precifion in all. Some of the principles advanced, and methods recommended, have been of confiderable fervice; while others, as they were built upon falfe dogmas, are more calculated to mif- lead than to dire£t into the right path. The Work, which is now introduced to the Englifh. reader, profefles to remove feveral remaining difficulties of no fmall moment; and to propofe rules more conducive to facility, grace, and accuracy, than any hitherto offered. Thefe profeffions are founded upon the difcovery of a much more immediate and intimate connexion between the fciences of human and comparative anatomy, and of the natural hiflory of animals, with the art of delineation, than could have been fuppofed to exift. Every idea in it, that is pe- culiar to the Author, exemplifies in a very finking manner the truth of our remark concerning the connexion that fubfifts between different branches of the arts and fciences; by means of which the one may be rendered, in various refpefts, fub- fervient to the other. The happy union, in the lame perfon, of profound knowledge in Anatomy, with a taffe for Draw-