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Gamelin, Jacques, 1738-1803 · 1779 · A Toulouse : De l'imprimerie de J.F. Desclassan, Maître-ez-arts, près la Place Royale · 28 pictures

A 1779 anatomical plate book by Jacques Gamelin, printed in Toulouse by J.F. Desclassan, for artists and students learning the skeleton and musculature from life. Its engraved figures show nude male bodies in dynamic poses, with muscles drawn in fine hatched line, offering a designer a model for figure construction, tension and the anatomy beneath a body's surface.

Human anatomy -- Early works to 1800 · Anatomy, Artistic -- Early works to 1800 · Skeleton -- Pictorial works -- Early works to 1800 · Muscles -- Pictorial works -- Early works to 1800

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