An Atlas of Animal Anatomy for Artists

W. Ellenberger, Francis A. Davis, Francis A. Davis

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780486200828
• eBook ISBN: 9780486316710
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Art General

"Highly recommended as one of the very few books on the subject worthy of being used an an authoritative guide." — Design
"Illustrators, sculptors, and taxidermists who draw or model animals will welcome this new revised edition." — Natural History

Here are 288 remarkably lifelike drawings of animals, furnishing artists and students with an easy-to-follow method of instruction in the drawing of horses, dogs, lions, cows and bulls, stags, and goats. So detailed and so accurate are these drawings that this book has long been a classic work of its kind.
The animals are shown in three ways: external full views and dozens of details (paws, head, eyes, legs, etc.); beneath-the-skin drawings of musculature and of the positions and insertions of each muscle; and skeleton drawings of the bone structures that support and determine surface contours and configurations. In addition, special cross-sections dissect those portions of the animal — such as the head and limbs — that are most important to the artist.
For this edition, Lewis S. Born of the American Museum of Natural History collected 25 plates from George Stubbs's Anatomy of the Horse, long unavailable; Straus-Durckheim's Anatomie Descriptive et Comparative du Chat; and Cuvier and Laurrillard's Anatomie Comparée. These plates, as fully annotated as the plates that make up the original book, supplement Ellenberger, Baum and Dittrich with anatomical drawings of the monkey, the bat, the flying squirrel, the rat kangaroo, the seal, and the hare. Mr. Lewis also provided a new preface and added to the annotated bibliography, which now contains 66 items.

The Horse

THE HORSE - PLATES 1 2 3

FIGURES 1 2 3

a, a'—M. trapezius

c, c'—M. cleidomastoideus

d—M. sternomandibularis

e, e'—M. deltoideus

f, f'—M. triceps brachii

g—Anterior portion of the M. pectoralis major

h—Posterior portion of the M. pectoralis minor

h'—Scapular portion of the M. pectoralis minor

i—Thoracic part of the M. serratus anterior

i'—Cervical part of the M. serratus anterior

k—M. latissimus dorsi

l, l'—M. obliquus abdominis externus

l''—Remainders of the abdominal subcutaneous muscle

m—M. serratus posterior

m'—Fascia

o—M. tensor fasciae latae

o'—Fascia lata

o"—M. glutaeus maximus

p'—Fascia glutaea

q, q', q"—M. biceps femoris

r—M. semitendinosus

s, t—Short and long levators of the tail

u—Abductor of the tail

v—Cervical subcutaneous muscle (cervical panniculus)

w—M. splenius

x—A small part of the M. rhomboideus

y—Tendon of the M. longissimus capitis et atlantis

z, z'—M. supraspinatus

1 H—1st cervical vertebra (Atlas)

7 H—7th cervical vertebra

K—Sacrum

6 K—6th costal cartilage

1 L—1st lumbar vertebra

6 L—6th lumbar vertebra

1 R—1st thoracic (dorsal) vertebra

6 R—6th rib

17 R—17th thoracic (dorsal) vertebra

18 R—18th rib

1 S—1st caudal vertebra

16 S—16th caudal vertebra

*—Ala border of the atlas

1—Scapula

1'—Cartilago scapulae

2—Spina scapulae

4—Humerus

4'—External epicondyle

5—External tuberosity

6—Rotator

7—Ulna

8—Olecranon

9—Radius

10—Carpus

11—Os pisiforme

12—Metacarpus

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• The Horse
• The Dog
• The Lion
• The Cow and Bull
• The Stag, Roe, Goat
• Appendix
• Bibliography