L'art de dessiner / par Jean Cousin.
An 18th-century Paris edition of Jean Cousin's treatise on drawing, first written in the 16th century, produced for artists and students learning to draw the human figure. The pictures are numbered woodcut-style anatomical plates showing muscles and skeletal lines on standing male figures, legs and torsos, with lettered keys and grid-like proportion guides. A designer might take from them the clean hierarchy of muscle layering and the use of grids to organise a figure.
