Facillima methodus delineandi omnes humani corporis partes
A drawing manual from 1770, printed in Veneto by the Remondini press, with plates attributed to the artist Philipp Esengren, who was active 1594 to 1631, and intended for students learning to draw the human body. The plates show isolated arms, hands, legs and feet, plus skeletons and muscled figures, drawn in fine engraved or etched hatching on pale paper. A designer might take from them the method of building anatomy with cross-hatched shading and the way single limbs are arranged in rhythmic groupings across a page.
