The muscles of the human body, first layer, seen from the front, after Albinus. Engraving by Benard, 1779, after an engraving, 1747.

[Geneva] : [Pellet], [1779]

1 print : engraving, with etching ; platemark 22.4 x 17.9 cm (trimmed)

Anatomie, ecorché vû de face. Bernard direx. Bears plate no. : Seconde pl. 4

Robert Beverly Hale and Terence Coyle, Albinus on anatomy, New York 1979, p. 35

Wellcome Collection 36172i

The reverse of the first muscle plate to B. S. Albinus, Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani, Leiden 1747, drawn and engraved by Jan Wandelaar (1690-1759). A low horizon line and a clump of vegetation on the left replaces the elaborate background that fills the entire Wandelaar plate