A male nude, seen from the front, holding an apple. Engraving by F. Boitard after a woodcut.

[between 1700 and 1799]

1 print : engraving ; image 34.6 x 19.3 cm

Viri viventis effigies ex clariss: Vesalio ; F. Boitard. fecit Lettering continues: key with Latin names of the parts of the body

J. B. de C. M. Saunders and C. D. O'Malley, The illustrations from the works of Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, Cleveland and New York, 1950, pp. 218-219, pl. 80

Wellcome Collection 32334i

A copy of the male nude plate in Andreas Vesalius's Suorum de humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome, Basel 1543. In place of the skull in the original, the figure holds an apple, an attribute of Adam