How to Draw Eyes - The Cyclopedia Book of Plates

These images of the anatomy of the eye are from a book titled The Cyclopedia Book of Plates dated 1809.  I am not sure which Cyclopedia they are from. The Encyclopedia Britannica was in print at that time as was Ephraim Chamber's Cyclopedia.

Both prints are for sale on Ebay.

A webpage with extensive reference to Ephraim Chamber's Cyclopedia.

University of Wisconsin digitized version of Chamber's Cyclopedia.

Illustration from: The cyclopaedia of anatomy and physiology.

  

Sculpture and Painting (The Iconographic Encyclopedia of the Arts and Sciences)
Constructive Arts (The Iconographic Encyclopedia of the Arts and Sciences)
Iconographic encyclopedia of the arts and sciences

1910 Encyclopedia Britannica Eleventh Edition. 29 volume set including index
Encyclopedia Britannica. A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information: 11th (Eleventh) Edition, plus 12th (Twelfth) and 13th (Thirteenth) Edition Supplements

Related book with reproductions of old prints:

The Human Figure: A Sourcebook for Artists and Designers (Pepin Picture Collections)

Iosif Iser - figure paintings

 

Iosif Iser, Nude, oil on canvas. Nude, sold at auction. Another picture.

Iosif Iser was born in Bucharest in 1881 and died at the age of 77 in the same city was a Romanian painter and graphic artist. He studied in both Munich and Paris. He returned to Romania and drew caricatures for socialist newspapers Facla and Adevărul. He made two major series of paintings one on Dobrujan themes and Tartar portraits and one on Harlequins.

Another blog post about Iosif Iser at True Romania.
Biography at Judaica.ro.
Another example of a harlequin drawing at the Art Museum Ploieşti.
Video show of paintings at Dailymotion.


Romanian Caricaturists: Nicolae Tonitza, Eugen Taru, Ion Valentin Anestin, Ion Popescu-Gopo, Iosif Iser, Gogu Neagoe, Francisc Sirato

Romanian Cartoonists: Nicolae Tonitza, Nestor Ignat, Eugen Taru, Ion Valentin Anestin, Ion Popescu-Gopo, Iosif Iser, Dan Perjovschi

Iosif Iser (Rumanian artists)

Bucharest/Paris Romanian Artists In Paris 1880-1910 September 27-November 30,2004

Romanian Artists in the West

Kindle Edition of Gerard Audran's The Proportions of the Human Body

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Fifty Figure Drawings - Bridgman Publishers

 

Charles Cagle, Watkins Institute, Nashville, Tennessee, James B. Gould, pupil of Arthur Woelfe, Mechanics Institute, New York.

This book was published in 1927 by Bridgman Publishers and consisted of a selection of fifty figure drawings that were submitted to a jury, presumably for the purposes of publishing this book.

 

A. Kitz pupil of Louis F. Bernecker, Mechanics Institute, New York City,  Edwin Kaufman, Cleveland School of Art, pupil of P. B. Travis.

Charles Chappell and Edund C. Gray, pupils of Kimon Nicholaides, Art Student's League, New York

A reprinted edition  and a book by one of the instructors mentioned are available at Amazon.com:

  

Fifty Figure Drawings

The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study by Kimon Nicholaides

Original editions are also available
Fifty Figure Drawings, a Selected Group of the Best Figure Drawings Submitted to the Fifty Best Drawing Jury
Fifty Figure Drawings
Fifty Figure Drawings

Bridgman was a prolific publisher of books about figure drawing. These are Dover reprints

    

Heads, Features and Faces

The Human Machine

Bridgman's Life Drawing

The Book of a Hundred Hands

  

Drawing the Draped Figure

Drawing the Female Form

One Hundred Figure Drawings

Samples from Drawing the Female Form are at: Figure-Drawings.com