Muscles of the head, neck and chest. Engraving, 1686.

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[1686]
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31571i
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Muscles of the head, neck and chest. Engraving, 1686. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The first two figures, at the bottom of the plate, show the muscles of the back of the head and neck. Figure 2, on the left, is a deeper dissection than figure 1. At the top right, figure 3 is a deep dissection of the neck from the front. Figure 4 at the top left is of the muscles of the chest. The large raised and pinned muscle lettered "i" is the pectoral

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

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1 print : engraving ; image 13.8 x 8 cm

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Bears plate number: Tab. XL; page number

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Wellcome Collection 31571i

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The fortieth 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

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