The artist's pocket companion : being a compendious treatise of anatomy, adapted to the arts of designing, painting, and sculpture : in eight figures : in which the bones and the external muscles of the human body are represented, as they apper in the best chosen attitudes, when cleared of the skin, the membrana adiposa, and the veins and arteries that lie on their surface : most accurately outlined from the best antomical tables and figures extant ..
John Walker's 1787 London anatomy treatise for artists, published by the engraver himself in Clerkenwell, is a compact manual of skeletal and muscle studies meant for designers, painters and sculptors. Its plates show a standing skeleton, a skeleton leaning on a pedestal beside a skull, and a flayed figure seen from behind with muscles labelled in Latin, all in fine pen-and-ink line; a designer might borrow the clean contour drawing and the way posed figures reveal underlying structure.
