The anatomical works of George Stubbs /
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Boston, Massachusetts :
David R. Godine,
[1975, ©1974]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Stubbs's early life; Stubbs's work for Burton's Midwifery; the Italian journey; The Anatomy of the Horse: the historical background; The Anatomy of the Horse; the establishment of Stubbs's reputation and his relations with Josiah Wedgwood; Stubbs and the Hunter brothers; Stubbs's later life and his work on the Comparative Anatomical Exposition Engravings for the tables illustrating Dr. John Burton's An Essay Towards a Complete New System of Midwifery, London, 1751 Drawings for The Anatomy of the Horse, London, 1766 Engravings for The Anatomy of the Horse, London, 1766 Drawings for A Comparative Anatomical Exposition of the Human Body with that of a Tiger and a Common Fowl, London, 1804-6 Engravings for A Comparative Anatomical Exposition of the Human Body with that of a Tiger and a Common Fowl, London, 1804-6 Additional illustrations Appendix 1 The introduction to the English edition of 1749 of Albinus's Table of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body Appendix 2 The text of The Anatomy of the Horse Appendix 3 Two pages from the Worcester Manuscript in Stubbs's handwriting.