Teaching women about the female body
Anatomical Representation of a Female Figure, modelled from the Venus de Medicis, by Antonio Serantoni, of Florence. ** the model is shewn to Ladies in private, and explained by a Female. Seven allegorical paintings representing The Cardinal Sins, by the Celebrated Jacob Logozzi. Exhibiting at the COSORAMA, 209 Regent Street...We beg once more to say that arrangements are made to remove every objection that either timidity or delicacy could suggest.
London, July 1834 Single leaf 8vo, printed recto and verso.
227 by 140mm (9 by 5½ inches).
The Athenaeum of Feb 14th 1852, carried an announcement that Mr J. C. Stephens was to sell by auction a most valuable Anatomical, Pathological and Botanical museum of preparations in wax, including ‘a Full-length model of a female dissected, the chef-d’oeuvre of the celebrated Antonio Serantoni...’ presumably the same model exhibited in 1834. The Henry Evans collection in the British Library has a variant pamphlet published two years later and seemingly without the reference to the seven Cardinal Sin Paintings by Ligozzi.
£180
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