The Artist's Repository, Or, Encyclopedia of the Fine Arts (Band 1): The Human Figure (London, 1808)

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PLATE CVI.

Fig. 1. Venus : the very delicate, graceful,
youthful yet mature, and tender yet complete, pro-
portions of this celebrated figure, undoubtedly en-
title it to hold a distinguished place among the cha-
racters which may claim beauty—a beauty not
merely human, but divine.

Fig. 2. Diana : light, agile, rapid, brisk, fit
for celerity, and swiftness of motion. ,

Fig. 3. A water nymph ; whose clear foun-
tains yield the translucent stream, fresh, pure, and
gentle : and whose double sources are hinted at by
her carrying two water urns.

Fig. 4. Flora : whose dignified character
unites elegance of attitude, and graceful motion, to
mature and matron-like proportions.

As the characters of these figures require they
should be cloathed, it is very rare to find them other-
wise ; their proportions, nevertheless, appear suffi-
ciently varied; though they are thereby precluded
from yielding those precise and accurate measures of
the parts, &c, which we obtain from some others.

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