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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).

Women’s Studies Archive: Voice and Vision Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Walker, Alexander, 1779-1852, author.
Contributor:
Howard, Henry, 1769-1847, illustrator.
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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