George Stubbs (1724-1806), an English artist famous for his portraits of thoroughbred race horses and for other animal paintings was also the author of the illustrations and text of The Anatomy of the Horse, one of the truly remarkable anatomical studies of its subject. First published in 1766, Stubbs' work was based on numerous dissections, a practice far from generally accepted in his century. Stubbs' horses, shown in this edition on 36 large plates, are memorable for their uncanny life-like quality, nobility and extreme anatomical precision.

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