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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).

Author/creator Walker, Alexander, 1779-1852 author.
Other author/creatorHoward, Henry, 1769-1847, illustrator.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info New-York : William H. Colyer, 1844.
Description1 online resource (225 pages, 23 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations.
Supplemental Content Gale, Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision
Subject(s)
Series Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision
Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision. UNAUTHORIZED
General noteSpine title: Beauty in women.
General noteLast page blank.
General noteReproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.

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