Muscles of the back and abdomen. Engraving, 1686, after Gérard de Lairesse, 1685.

  • Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640-1711.
Date:
[1686]
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31817i
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Four figures of the muscles of the back and two of the abdomen. The sixth figure, at the lower right, is of the cavity of the abdomen once the viscera have been removed. The vertebrae are visible, labelled "i", and the diaphragm is labelled "b"

Publication/Creation

[Amsterdam] : [J. ten Hoorn], [1686]

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; image 13.9 x 8 cm

Lettering

Lettering (trimmed) in brown ink at top right: "Bidloo" Bears plate number: Tab. XLI; page number

Reference

Wellcome Collection 31817i

Reproduction note

The forty-first of fifty-one plates first published in Steven Blankaart's De nieuw hervormde anatomie ofte ontleding des menschen lichaams, Amsterdam 1686, with a Latin edition the following year. The plates are made up of uncredited reduced copies of previously published illustrations, several to a page. In the notes to this plate in James Drake's Anthropologia nova (London 1707, 2 vols), where the Blankaart plates were published in an appendix to the first volume, the figures are described as after those published by Bidloo. Each figure originally appeared as a folio plate to Govard Bidloo's Anatomia humani corporis (Amsterdam 1685). For a description of Bidloo's twenty-ninth plate, on which figure 3 of the present plate is base, see catalogue no. 27734

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