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The human venous system. Photolithograph, 1940, after a woodcut, 1543.
- Vesalius, Andreas, 1514-1564.
- Date
- 1940
- Reference
- 24440i
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Publication/Creation
Bern : Dr A. Wander, 1940.
Physical description
1 print : photolithograph
Contributors
Lettering
Integra et ab omnibus partibus libera ac nuda venae cavae delineatio
References note
J. B. de C. M. Saunders and C. D. O'Malley, The illustrations from the works of Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, Cleveland and New York, 1950, pp. 134-135, pl. 44
H. Cushing, A bio-bibliography of Andreas Vesalius, 2nd ed., Hamden, Conn. and London 1962, pp. 75-88, no. VI.A.-1
Reference
Wellcome Library no. 24440i
Reproduction note
The original: is a woodcut illustration to book III of the De humani corporis fabrica libri septem of Andreas Vesalius (p. 268), published in Basel in 1543
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Languages
- Latin