GEORGE STUBBS Group of 4 etchings and stipple engravings.
Each circa 1804. Approximately 510x380 mm; 20 1/4x15 inches, wide margins. Each from A Comparative Anatomical Exposition of the Human Body with that of a Tiger and a Common Fowl. Some minor scattered marginal soiling on most of the sheets.
The project that engaged the last 10 years of his life, Stubbs's Comparative Anatomy was originally to consist of 60 engravings and descriptive text comparing the skeletons, external forms and muscular structure of a human, a tiger and a fowl. By the time of his death in 1806, he had completed only half the proposed number of engravings. Nevertheless, the prints he made for the work are unparalleled in their delicacy and almost photographic appearance, managing to closely assimilate the immediacy of his finished drawings. Lennox-Boyd 205 ff.
