Author: Jacob de Wit (1695-1754)
Title: [Antique prints album, 1790] TEEKENBOEK DER PROPORTIEN VAN'T MENSCHELIJKE LIGCHAAM, Geïnventeerd en Geteekend door JACOB DE WIT. [Les Proportions du Corps Humain], published 1790, 12 pp.
Description: Double language volume by Jacob de Wit, published in Amsterdam in 1790 by W. Vermandel en J.W. Smit, concerning the art of portraying the human body.Instructive book, introduced by a letter to the 'AMATEURS' (p. 3-12) with a section dedicated to the proportions: 'Explication abregeee des Statues de Proportion'(p. 13-15).Twelve plates with explicatory drawings for drawings of full human figures, from statues and heads. Complete. Engraving and etching on paper; frontispiece plate mark: 215 x 212, total: 290 x 239; text in letterpress; browned paper, with smudges on the bottom; front cover missing, rust stain on the top left corner, damp stain on the top of many pages of the volume.

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