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MACLISE, Joseph (1850-1880). Surgical Anatomy. London: John Churchill, 1856.
2o (532 x 367 mm). 52 partially hand-colored lithographed plates by M. & N. Hanhart after the author (some occasional pale spotting). Contemporary green half morocco (rebacked preserving original spine, some minor soiling and light wear).
Second edition, revised with some plates redrawn and others added, after the first edition published in 1851. "The drawings of Maclise for Quain's Anatomy of the arteries and for his own Surgical anatomy are indeed done, as Quain wrote, with spirit and effect. These figures of anatomical dissection seem lifelike; in many plates the figure is shown as a torso, or a bust, or as a full-or half-length figure. The faces seem to be a gallery of portraits, perhaps of visitors to the 1851 Great Exhibition. They are mostly young men with fine hair-bearded, clean-shaven, or mustachioed, with or without sideburns; occasionally there are remarkably handsome black men. Many appear god-like. This is indeed 'high' art, only incidentally of an anatomical subject. If the analogy is not too far-fetched, Maclise's drawing may be compared with the work in different media of the English Romantic poets or of the composer Berlioz. The same comparisons have been made in relation to the work of the Victorian artist Daniel Maclise (1806-70), Joseph Maclise's older brother. They remained close, traveling in Italy together, and sharing houses in Bloomsbury and Chelsea" (Roberts & Tomlinson p. 564). Heirs of Hippocrates 1751 (first edition).
[With:]
MACLISE, Joseph. A collection of thirty colored lithographed medical prints, by Taylor & Walton, Upper Gower St., London; J. Graf, printer to Her Majesty. Each 18 x 22¾in. (457 x 578 mm). (31)
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Second edition, revised with some plates redrawn and others added, after the first edition published in 1851. "The drawings of Maclise for Quain's Anatomy of the arteries and for his own Surgical anatomy are indeed done, as Quain wrote, with spirit and effect. These figures of anatomical dissection seem lifelike; in many plates the figure is shown as a torso, or a bust, or as a full-or half-length figure. The faces seem to be a gallery of portraits, perhaps of visitors to the 1851 Great Exhibition. They are mostly young men with fine hair-bearded, clean-shaven, or mustachioed, with or without sideburns; occasionally there are remarkably handsome black men. Many appear god-like. This is indeed 'high' art, only incidentally of an anatomical subject. If the analogy is not too far-fetched, Maclise's drawing may be compared with the work in different media of the English Romantic poets or of the composer Berlioz. The same comparisons have been made in relation to the work of the Victorian artist Daniel Maclise (1806-70), Joseph Maclise's older brother. They remained close, traveling in Italy together, and sharing houses in Bloomsbury and Chelsea" (Roberts & Tomlinson p. 564). Heirs of Hippocrates 1751 (first edition).
[With:]
MACLISE, Joseph. A collection of thirty colored lithographed medical prints, by Taylor & Walton, Upper Gower St., London; J. Graf, printer to Her Majesty. Each 18 x 22¾in. (457 x 578 mm). (31)
