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Beauty: illustrated chiefly by an analysis and classification of beauty in women / Preceded by a critical view of the general hypotheses respecting beauty, by Hume, Hogarth, Burke, Knight, Alison, etc., and followed by a similar view of the hypotheses of beauty in sculpture and painting by Leonardo da Vinci, Winckelmann, Mengs, Bossi, etc. By Alexander Walker. Illustrated by drawings from life, by Henry Howard.

Sir Humphry Davy. Stipple engraving by Roffe after H. Howard.

Sir Humphry Davy. Mezzotint by C. Turner, 1835, after H. Howard.

William Kirby. Stipple engraving by A. Tardieu after H. Howard.

William Kirby. Mezzotint by T. Lupton, 1828, after H. Howard.

Sir Humphry Davy. Stipple engraving by J. Thomson, 1822, after H. Howard.

William Kirby. Stipple engraving by W. T. Fry, 1825, after H. Howard.

John Scott. Mezzotint by S. W. Reynolds after H. Howard.

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Henry Howard

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Images by Henry Howard

Works from the collections

John Scott. Mezzotint by S. W. Reynolds after H. Howard.

Sir Humphry Davy. Stipple engraving by Roffe after H. Howard.

Sir Humphry Davy. Mezzotint by C. Turner, 1835, after H. Howard.

William Kirby. Stipple engraving by A. Tardieu after H. Howard.

Sir Humphry Davy. Stipple engraving by J. Thomson, 1822, after H. Howard.