Human arterial system. Engraving by Campbell, after an engraving by M. Vandergucht after W. Cowper, for Drake, 1707.

  • Cowper, William, 1666-1709.
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An illustration to an article entitled "Artery" in an English encyclopedia

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1 print : engraving ; platemark 32.6 x 22 cm

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Campbell sculpt. Arteries Bears plate no. : IV

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Wellcome Collection 37384i

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After a plate designed by William Cowper, the anatomist, and engraved by Michael Vandergucht, and published in James Drake's Anthropologia nova, London 1707, ii, fig. 20. It was later used as an illustration to D. Diderot and J. Le Rond d'Alembert's Encyclopédie (plates volume 18, Paris 1762, pl. 8) and reappears in several eighteenth-century English encyclopedias

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