Winter, Joseph Georg (c. 1725-1789)

Études d'anatomie à l'usage des peintres. Author's holograph MS. Ornamental symbolic title-page, ports, and 40 plates of original pencil drawings: probably prepared for publication, many dated and initialed by the author. Inside the cover is the author's name in printed capitals, and his coat of arms drawn in ink, with date 1780.

1780

1 volume 42 ff. folio. 40 × 30 cm. Original quarter-calf binding, worn.

Purchased 1924.

J. G. Winter was a German painter, born in Munich between 1720 and 1730.

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).