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GEORGE STUBBS<> Group of 6 stipple engravings.
Each circa 1804. Approximately 375x505 mm; 14 3/4x20 inches. The name Edmead and Pine with the date 1804 watermarks. Each from A Comparative Anatomical Exposition of the Human Body with that of a Tiger and a Common Fowl<>. Some minor scattered soiling on most of the sheets, one print with more significant soiling and a loss lower left corner.
The project which 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 ff 205 .
