19th C. Art School Anatomy Lessons, 90+ Packed Pages Ink Drawings and Handwriten Textbooks letter with drawing whimsical interplay of shapes and

whimsical interplay of shapes and colors

It may be Halloween season

with black painted shoes that just peek out below the belly of the mule (I assume) on the reverse side

painting itself measures 15" x 11 7/8"

But what a thing they made

19th C. Art School Anatomy Lessons, 90+ Packed Pages Ink Drawings and Handwriten Textbooks letter with drawing whimsical interplay of shapes andI purchased this one on Ebay, based on a few images that made me think it might be quite a thing, and indeed it is! With nearly 100 oversized pages packed with ink drawn illustrations and dense hand written text, it was the work of a "HPB" ( monogrammed at bottom right on every page), a student of art at academy I believe, and covers a wide scope of human anatomy and physiognomy, etc. Clearly he (I presume) was referencing (probably carefully copying)