Anatomy For The Use Of Artists. By Richard Lewis Bean, Late House-Surgeon At King's College And Charing-Cross Hospitals. - Illustrated By Several Plates. -
No plate is signed by draughtsman or engraver. Each carries the imprint of the intaglio-printers, 'M & N Hanhart Lith Printers'.
The text printer is named in the colophon: 'T.C. Savill, Printer, 107, St. Martin's Lane.'
The work is dedicated by the Author to William Fergusson, F.R.S.E.
References
M. Cazort et al., The Ingenious Machine of Nature: Four Centuries Of Art And Anatomy [exhibition catalogue] (1996).
Summary Note
Many artists were dissuaded from reading books on anatomy by their complexity. Here, in an attempt at simplification, Bean uses a new system of notation, labelling muscles and bones by their initials instead of numbers and single letters - but this, too, sometimes leads to unwieldy results.
Provenance
The front free-endpaper is inscribed in ink, 'Presented by R L Bean Esqr'. Presented by the author in 1841 (acknowledged RA Council Minutes, IX, 206).
Binding Note
19th-century brown cloth-covered boards, upper and lower covers decorated in blind; rebacked in 20th century, spine lettered 'Anatomy R. Bean'.
Subject
Anatomy
Manuals - Great Britain - 19th century
Pictorial works - Lithographs - Great Britain - 19th century