Lectures on sculpture ..
Lectures on Sculpture is an 1838 London book by John Flaxman, with additions by Richard Westmacott, published by Henry G. Bohn for students and practitioners of sculpture. Its engraved plates reproduce sculptural works, including a medieval bishop effigy, a classical nude figure in an oval frame, and a relief scene of dancing figures. A designer might take from them the clean contour line and idealised classical anatomy typical of early nineteenth-century sculpture study.
