Maclise, Joseph.
Surgical Anatomy.

Dawson 4450. Hirsch-Hübotter IV, 18. Eindrucksvoll illustrierter anatomischer Atlas,”The object of this work is to present to the student of medicine…dissections demonstrative of the relative anatomy…of the human body…Of the illustrations of this work I may state, in guarantee of their anatomical accuracy, that they have been made by myself from my own dissections,”-Preface.” 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. The analogy is not too far-fetched that Maclise’s drawings may be compared with the study of the human body done by classical artists of ancient Greece and Rome. 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).
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