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Click to enlargeBridgman’s Life Drawing

George B. Bridgman
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Format: Book
ISBN: 0486227103
Page Count: 192
Dimensions: 6 1/2 x 9 1/4
More than 500 drawings and text teach you to abstract the body into its major masses. Also specific areas of anatomy.

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