Elements of anatomy; designed for the use of students in the fine arts
Elements of Anatomy, published in London by R. Hunter in 1818, was written by James Birch Sharpe for art students who needed to understand the human body. The plates show skeletons, muscle studies of the foot, face, hand and a striding male figure drawn in fine pencil or engraved line. A designer could draw on them for accurate figure construction, skeletal structure and muscle layering in figure drawings.
