A dissection in progress: the anatomy professor at his lectern. Line block after a drawing after a woodcut, 1493.

España [Spain] : Laboratorios del Norte de España, [1950?]

1 process print : line block, with lithographic tint plate ; image 34.4 x 23.5 cm

Una lección de anatomía en el siglo XV "Fasciculus medicinæ" de Juan de Ketham (1495).

G. Wolf-Heidegger and Anna Maria Cetto, Die anatomische Sektion in bildlicher Darstellung, Basel and New York 1967, pp. 162-163, fig. 60

Wellcome Collection 24083i

Derived from: the original woodcut in De Ketham's Fasciculo di medicina, Venice 1493 (2nd ed.). This dissection scene was not present in the Latin editio princeps of Venice 1491, the Fasciculus medicinae. The 1493 dissection scene is distinguished by the broken pane on the right and the position of the basket below the table on the left. Although the lettering indicates that this is from the 1495 edition of De Ketham's Fasciculus medicinae, the dissection scene of this edition has a left window without any panes, the right window has two complete, closed panes, the basket has been moved to the right and the lecturer is depicted with more animated gestures and has an open mouth, as if speaking