Sykes, Henry

Sketch-book containing 24 anatomical pencil-drawings, copied from the 'Anatomie des formes du corps humain à l'usage des peintres et des sculpteurs' Paris, by Antoine Louis Fau [1811-1880]. Besides the copied figures from Fau's atlas, there are also a few figure-sketches, etc. in pen and pencil. Pasted inside the upper cover is a lithographed Ex-libris inscribed in the centre 'Henry Sykes 1873', below this very faintly written in pencil, 'Drawn on the stone by H. Sykes.' Fau's work was translated by Robert Knox [1791-1862] in 1845, and these copies are perhaps made from that edition: the legends are in English. Produced in Paris.

1873

1 volume 47 ll. + 15 bl. ll. + 4 ll. folio. 33 × 261/2 cm. Original calf binding, damaged.

Purchased 1932.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).