Ellwood G.M., Yerbury F.R. Studies of the Human Figure: With Some Notes on Drawing and Anatomy

First edition. — London: B.T.Batsford Ltd, 1918. — 114 p.
Throughout the ages the human form has been the chief inspiration of the artist, and proficiency in its representation an enviable distinction among his contemporaries. The earliest manifestations of the desire to record things seen were crude attempts to represent figures by outline, or in silhouette, scratched with sharp instruments, on cave interiors, animals' horns and teeth, or rudely carved in any handy material. It was in the magnificent civilisation of old Egypt that the conscious artist was born, and Drawing, as we understand it to-day, cradled. The types of the period were rendered in paintings and sculpture with wonderful facility and spirit, and decorative compositions produced which involved great skill in representing the figure in action and revealed such scholarly regard for form and line that much can still be gained by studying them.