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Subject Terms Beauty, Personal.

1. Beauty; illustrated chiefly by an analysis and classification of beauty in woman. Preceded by a critical view of the general hypotheses respecting beauty, by Hume, Hogarth, Burke, Knight, Alison, etc., and followed by a similar view of the hypotheses of beauty in sculpture and painting, by Leonardo da Vinci, Winckelmann, Mengs, Bossi, etc. By Alexander Walker ... Illustrated by drawings from life, by Henry Howard ... drawn on stone by M. Gauci and R. J. Lane ...

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Creator:: Walker, Alexander, 1779–1852
Date:: 1836
Physical Description:: xxiii, [1], 395 p. front., XXII (i. e. 23) plates. 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts