The arteries of the head after Haller; the eye, after Ruysch; the tongue after Heister. Engraving by Benard, late 18th century.

[Paris]

1 print : engraving ; platemark 35.5 x 22.3 cm

Anatomie. ; Benard fecit. Bears plate no. : XI. XII.

Ludwig Choulant, History and bibliography of anatomic illustration, tr. and ed. by Mortimer Frank, Chicago 1920, revd ed. New York 1945, pp. 289-290

K.B. Roberts and J.D.W. Tomlinson, The fabric of the body. European traditions of anatomical illustration, Oxford 1992, pp. 347-352

Wellcome Collection 34490i

The head at the top of the plate is the reverse of the one which originally appeared as an illustration to the third fascicle of Albrecht von Haller's Icones anatomicae (Göttingen 1743-1756), engraved by George Daniel Heumann (1691-1759) after a drawing by C. J. Rollinus, who is described on the plates as a doctor of medicine