Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Walker, Alexander, 1779-1852
Title:
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 ...
Published / Created:
London, E. Wilson, 1836.
Physical Description:
xxiii, [1], 395 p. front., XXII (i. e. 23) plates. 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
The plates are printed on mounted India paper.
Subject Terms:
Wilson, Effingham -- Publisher. | Stewart and Co. -- Printer. | Beauty, Personal. | Women. | Lithography -- Specimens -- 1836.
Contributors:
Howard, Henry, 1769-1847. | Barris, C. T. | Gauci, M., engraver. | Lane, Richard James, 1800-1872.