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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, &c. and followed by a similar view of the hypotheses of beauty in sculpture and painting, by Leonardo da Vinci, Winckelmann, Mengs, Bossi, &c. / By Alexander Walker (author of "Physiognomy founded on physiology," The nervous system," &c.) ; illustrated by 24 steel engravings from drawings from life, by Henry Howard (professor of painting to the Royal Academy).
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walker, Alexander, 1779-1852, author.
- Series:
- Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision.
- Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Beauty, Personal.
- Women.
- Clothing and dress.
- Women--Health and hygiene.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 pages, 23 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations.
- Other Title:
- Beauty
- Place of Publication:
- William H. Colyer
- Notes:
- Spine title: Beauty in women.
- Last page blank.
- Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
- OCLC:
- 1162475805
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