Identifier: repositoryofarts611acke (find matches)
Title: The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics
Year: 1809 (1800s)
Authors: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834
Subjects: Fashion Art, Decorative
Publisher: London : Published by R. Ackermann ... Sherwood & Co. and Walker & Co. ... and Simpkin & Marshall ...
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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pine goesback to give room for the throat;it then projects forward to attain thecenter of gravity, then goes back tomake room for the chest, then for-ward for the balance, then back tomake room, then forward and againbackward for the pelvis. The bendof the tibia, also, is not near somuch noticed in a front as in a sideview. The leg bones hang ratheroutward. Before I remark on the musclci,which may very readily be donefrom some prints and figures Ihave, particularly antique statues,I shall just remark, that my obser-vations on the skeleton are very ge-neral, and not common-place. Hereand there may be some that I haverecollected from books, but theyare, in general, from other sources.It would be very easy from booksto be certain of correctness; and awork might soon be produced striptof the abstruseness that tends somuch to hide this science from youngartists, and which would be ex-tremely useful to them. I do notassert, that what I have said pos-sesses such pretensions, but yet p/,lf,;-
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THE GkETTSIEIR -jit J C^JLATTD ■ AyjaefJiAcmiatiiMirsJiEzwizniarefidtt ILLU9THATI0NS OF ICELAND. 67 gome observations may be fouud (hat■would assis(, and some hints arestarted that might be easily ma-tured. Miss Eve. Though, Iti your ob-servations on the muscles, you saybut little of their origin, insertion,and use, yet if you were only tomention the books in which such in-formation is to be found, that issaying a great deal. Suppose Iwanted to learn the muscles of theface, perhaps I should not knowwhat author would teach me. Intwo words—read Santolini or Al-binus on this part. What a dealmore I then know I Or read Monroon the Bones, or Douglass trans-lation from the French of Winslow.What would it be to me, or anyother student, whether you teachus, or these first-rate productions ? Miss K. I will now make a fewgeneral amusing observations on themuscles, as I have on the bones,and I would say a deal more, butwhere would be the use ? The ge-neral muscles, their origins, inser-tio

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