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Concept

Generative organs, Female

Images

  • A fugitive sheet of a seated female figure, her hand resting on a vase, with her thorax and abdomen dissected to reveal the ribs, vertebral column and pelvis. Photograph after a woodcut, 1611.
  • The uterus, after Swammerdam, De Graaf and Cheselden. Etching, 1743.
  • A female flap anatomy fugitive sheet, with layered flaps lifted to reveal the anatomy of the thorax and abdomen. Photograph of an engraving, 1683.
  • A Chinese painting in which a woman baring her genitals is pushed on a swing towards a man with an erect penis. Colour lithograph, ca. 1989.
  • Female genital organs before, during and after pregnancy. Colour lithograph by O. Gri︠u︡n, 1925.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    The reproductive system / Kathryn H. Hollen.

    Hollen, Kathryn H. | Date: 2004
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    A seated female figure with a dissected abdomen. Photograph after a woodcut, ca. 1525-1530.

    | Reference: 26792i
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    The uterus, a foetus, the hymen and female genitals, after Haller, Kulm and Huber. Engraving by Benard, late 18th century.

    | Reference: 35218i
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    Immaculate forms : uncovering the history of women's bodies / Helen King.

    King, Helen | Date: 2024
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    A female flap anatomy fugitive sheet, with layered flaps lifted to reveal the anatomy of the thorax and abdomen. Photograph of an engraving, 1683.

    | Reference: 26829i
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