The muscles of the human body, seen from the front, after Eustachius. Etching by G. Bickham, 1743, after himself, after an engraving, c. 1552.

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[1743]
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37271i
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[London] : [T. Osborne and J. Roberts], [1743]

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1 print : etching ; 32.3 x 19.8 cm (trimmed)

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G. Bickham jun.r delin sculp Bears plate no : 11

References note

Ludwig Choulant, History and bibliography of anatomic illustration, tr. and ed. Mortimer Frank, Chicago 1920, revd ed. New York 1945, pp. 200-204
K.B. Roberts and J.D.W. Tomlinson, The fabric of the body. European traditions of anatomical illustration, Oxford 1992, pp. 188-203

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Wellcome Collection 37271i

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After an engraving made by 1552 for the Italian anatomist, Bartholomeus Eustachius, but only first published in Rome in 1714 by Giovanni Maria Lancisi in the Tabulae anatomicae clarissimi viri Bartholomaei Eustachii quas è tenebris tandem vidicatas. This plate is after plate 29 of Lancisi's edition. A shaded ground has been added and instead of Eustachius's grid, the muscles are indicated by numbers

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