1592990989000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-38592 1753725822761 1753697148000 1753725817651 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-38592 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/38592 c5fa089b-3949-3572-9995-458f4548f237 8 reference term-101697 adlib-term-101697 613a191a-56ce-3317-8b6e-e5df00e65022 sketchbook reference term-37166 adlib-term-37166 feba6d99-fb75-3d35-b009-236d788146f6 laid paper Support Height mm 230 Width mm 169 Leaf Paintings, Drawings and Prints 832/7.f.23 1 accession number 832/7.f.23 38592 priref 38592 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/38592 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/38592 upper right grey ink 14 upper right graphite 23 the following in grey ink: [i] preceding word crossed through; [ii] preceding word crossed through; [iii] preceding word crossed through; [iv] preceding word crossed through recto grey ink As the Physician and the Surgeon must be / better acquainted with Anatomy than the / painter or Sculptor, we must therefore beleive[sic] / that the artists of the age of Hippocrates / Phidias, Alcamenes, Critias Praxiteles X &c &c / did not excel Hippocrates in this science. / hence it follows that as those Illustrious artists / had not the same[i] advantage of an intimate / knowledge of the muscular forms by means / of dissection in order to produce the eccelent[sic] / works which they have left, they must have / made amends for that defect by a more / diligent study of the living figure under all it's forms & circumstances / assisted by Philosophy & Geometry / In what manner the different Char[ii] Anatomical / Character of the figure was ascertained according to / the gradations of Divine, Heroic, & Common Nature / we may determine by the following observations / In the early productions of Art in every Country / Divinities & men are represented by forms copied from Common / Nature / When[iii] Philosophy afterwards teaches that / supernatural beings shou[iv] should be represented / X Pliny l34: C: 8 the following in grey ink: [i] preceding word crossed through; [ii] preceding word crossed through; [iii] preceding four words crossed through; [iv] preceding word crossed through verso grey ink human forms in their perfect simple[i] principles, the divisions / being few, & those, simple[ii] Geometrical figures little / compounded, these simple representations as they / repres express[iii] of first principles express the Ideas of / sublimity & perfection X / Common life must be represented by a faithful representation[iv] copy of Common Nature / Note X In the statue of Apollo Belvidere, the figures / of Monte cavallo the Copy from the Gem of Mercury / in this book, &c the pectoral muscles are of a curve / little compounded, the lines of the ribs almost half / a circle the division of the Abdomenal muscles / by the Linea Albis a perpendicular line intersected / at right angles, the Thigh is little divided the / general form of the knee is nearly an oval, the interior / line of the Tibia from the lower Apophysis[iv] head of the / said bone to the inner Ancle[sic], as nearly a regular curve / of 30 degrees - the Anatomical divisions of figures / in violent action as the Group of the Boxers, the figure commonly called the fighting Gladiator, their / Anatomical forms will be ascertained by subjects of / common nature reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference agent-153239 adlib-agent-153239 d8e74e61-a4a9-37b7-9e13-326601bb5bec Murray, Charles Fairfax 1916 1912 1916-12 given draughtsman reference agent-45771 adlib-agent-45771 b9e1e92c-edf1-3a4c-a4eb-f5fbaae070a3 Flaxman, John reference term-106659 adlib-term-106659 06ce97c3-af79-33d1-9c7a-9b263af93d6f grey ink reference media-209845 adlib-media-209845 96ec6315-8f5a-36e9-931d-590f79e06545 jpeg pdp/pdp79/large_832_7_f_23_r_201309_amt49_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 1301 width pixels 1024 1742599510928 1 image jpeg pdp/pdp79/mid_832_7_f_23_r_201309_amt49_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 635 width pixels 500 1742599510928 1 image jpeg pdp/pdp79/832_7_f_23_r_201309_amt49_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 3002 width pixels 2362 1742599510928 1 image jpeg pdp/pdp79/preview_832_7_f_23_r_201309_amt49_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 318 width pixels 250 1742599510928 1 image 0 media image reference media-209846 adlib-media-209846 bef623b6-97c1-3a52-b0f7-a17c426b3e7f jpeg pdp/pdp79/large_832_7_f_23_v_201309_amt49_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 1301 width pixels 1024 1742599448951 1 image jpeg pdp/pdp79/mid_832_7_f_23_v_201309_amt49_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 635 width pixels 500 1742599448951 1 image jpeg pdp/pdp79/832_7_f_23_v_201309_amt49_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 3002 width pixels 2362 1742599448951 1 image jpeg pdp/pdp79/preview_832_7_f_23_v_201309_amt49_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 318 width pixels 250 1742599448951 1 image 1 media image reference term-101697 adlib-term-101697 613a191a-56ce-3317-8b6e-e5df00e65022 sketchbook reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference term-9168 adlib-term-9168 6b0c59e1-73cc-3b5c-8e54-56f42806ba6f British

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