John Tinney

English engraver and printseller (1706–1761)

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Images from the collections

Images by John Tinney

30 images from works
  • Frontispiece to an English edition of Charles Le Brun's 'Expressions of the passions of the soul' (left); a face expressing attention. Engraving, c. 1760, after C. Le Brun.
  • An écorché figure with left arm raised, seen from the left side. Line engraving by J. Tinney, after A. Vesalius, 1743.
  • A skeleton leaning on an inscribed tombstone, resting his right hand on a skull. Line engraving by J. Tinney, 1743, after A. Vesalius, 1543.
  • A skeleton leaning on a spade. Line engraving by J. Tinney, 1743, after A. Vesalius, 1543.
  • A compendious treatise of anatomy : adapted to the arts of designing, painting, and sculpture, on ten folio copper-plates; and in which the external muscles and bones of the human body are represented as they appear in the best chosen attitudes, when cleared of the skin, the membrana adiposa, and the veins and arteries that lie on their surface.
  • An écorché figure gripping a piece of cloth, with left leg bent, seen from behind. Line engraving by J. Tinney, after W. Cowper, 1743.
  • An écorché figure seen from the front. Line engraving by J. Tinney, 1743, after A. Vesalius, 1543.
  • Two faces expressing veneration and rapture. Etching, c. 1760, after C. Le Brun.
  • An écorché figure, seen from the back, with an additional seated figure in the bottom left-hand corner. Line engraving by J. Tinney, after A. Vesalius, 1743.
  • Hercules (Heracles). Line engraving by J. Tinney, 1743.

Works from the collections

34 works

Frequent collaborators

Charles Le Brun
Andreas Vesalius
William Cowper

Related topics

Face
Physiognomy
Emotions
Human anatomy
Facial Expression
Muscles
Anatomy, Artistic
Human skeleton