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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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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    It was not only neceffary to make drawings of the different bones of the face, but to do this with accuracy. This was finally furmounted. The drawings were to be reduced to the fame fcale, and properly arranged. The bed antiques, and alfo the prints taken from them, were to be examined and dudied. Ancient and modern writers on the Natural Hiftory of Man, and on the Principles of Drawing, were to be perufed with attention, digefied, &c. &c. The Work fwelling under my hands, not only became more extenfive, but promifed to be more extenfively ufefuk I flattered myfelf that it would prove acceptable, not only to thofe who admire the mafterly performances of ancient artifts, but alfo to thofe who are engaged in the fludy of na^ tural hiftory, and to all young pupils in the arts of drawing and of fculpture. Employing every hour of leifure from other occupations, I finifhed the Iketch of the prefent Treatife, towards the end of Augufl in the year 1768. Delighted with my difcoveries, as is generally the cafe, I communicated them to feveral admirers of the fine arts. They imagined that confiderable fervice might be rendered to the fcience of Painting, and particularly to the Academy of Drawing, eftabliflied at Amfterdam, were I to deliver feme public lectures upon the fubjeft, before the members of that foclety. Thefe I delivered on the fil'd and fecond days of Augufl:, in the year 1 770, before a numerous and refpeflable audience. The prefident and chief patron of the inditution, c 2