Anatomy improv'd and illustrated with regard to the uses thereof in designing : not only laid down from an examen of the bones and muscles of the human body, but also demonstrated and exemplified from the most celebrated antique statues in Rome : exhibited in a great number of copper plates, with all the figures in various views : intended originally for ye use of the Royal French Academy of Painting and Sculpture
An 1723 London anatomy treatise for artists, published by John Senex, drawing on Charles Errard, Bernardino Genga, Giovanni Maria Lancisi and Michael van der Gucht and intended for the Royal French Academy of Painting and Sculpture. Its engraved plates show a nude male figure modelled after antique Roman statues, posed in several views with the musculature drawn in fine hatched lines. A designer could take from them the way muscles wrap and shift across a body in action, useful for figure drawing and dynamic poses.
