W. Ellenberger & Francis A. Davis 
An Atlas of Animal Anatomy for Artists 

‘Highly recommended as one of the very few books on the subject worthy of being used an an authoritative guide.’ —
Design

‘Illustrators, sculptors, and taxidermists who draw or model animals will welcome this new revised edition.’ —
Natural History

Here are 288 remarkably lifelike drawings of animals, furnishing artists and students with an easy-to-follow method of instruction in the drawing of horses, dogs, lions, cows and bulls, stags, and goats. So detailed and so accurate are these drawings that this book has long been a classic work of its kind.

The animals are shown in three ways: external full views and dozens of details (paws, head, eyes, legs, etc.); beneath-the-skin drawings of musculature and of the positions and insertions of each muscle; and skeleton drawings of the bone structures that support and determine surface contours and configurations. In addition, special cross-sections dissect those portions of the animal — such as the head and limbs — that are most important to the artist.

For this edition, Lewis S. Born of the American Museum of Natural History collected 25 plates from George Stubbs’s
Anatomy of the Horse, long unavailable; Straus-Durckheim’s
Anatomie Descriptive et Comparative du Chat; and Cuvier and Laurrillard’s
Anatomie Comparée. These plates, as fully annotated as the plates that make up the original book, supplement Ellenberger, Baum and Dittrich with anatomical drawings of the monkey, the bat, the flying squirrel, the rat kangaroo, the seal, and the hare. Mr. Lewis also provided a new preface and added to the annotated bibliography, which now contains 66 items.

Table of Content

PREFACE

THE HORSE

THE DOG

THE LION

THE COW AND BULL

‘THE STAG, ROE, GOAT’

APPENDIX

The Horse from Stubbs

The Cat from Straus-Durckheim

The Monkey from Cuvier

The Seal from Cuvier

The Hare from Cuvier

The Rat Kangaroo from Cuvier

The Flying Squirrel from Cuvier

The Bat from Cuvier

BIBLIOGRAPHY

About the author

James Gurney’s Survival Guide for Art Students The author of the 20th anniversary Calla Edition of the phenomenal bestseller Dinotopia, John Gurney is a master at bringing perspective realism and scientific accuracy to his artwork. Mr. Gurney is also a huge admirer of Dover’s line of art instruction books and has graciously compiled a list of his ten favorite titles, which includes An Atlas of Animal Anatomy for Artists. Here is what he had to say:

‘This is a useful reference book, dominated by large and carefully drawn plates. The animal kingdom is represented by a small number of familiar domesticated mammals: horse, dog, cow, and goat, together with a lion. Each animal is shown in neutral poses in side, top, and front views, with skeletal and muscular dissections for comparison.’