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Cervical, thoracic and lumbar vertebrae. Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.
- Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640-1711.
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Credit: Cervical, thoracic and lumbar vertebrae. Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.
Credit: Wellcome Collection.
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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Description
Figures 1-2 are of the first cervical vertebra, the atlas, seen from below and above. Figures 3-6 are similar views of the second and third cervical vertebrae. Figures 7-8 are of the first thoracic vertebrae seen from above and below and figures 10-12 are various views of lumbar vertebrae
Publication/Creation
[Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden] : Apud Johannem Arnoldum Langerak, 1739]
Physical description
1 print : engraving ; platemark 44 x 27.6 cm
Lettering
Tab. 93 ; Tab. 93 Vertebrae
Publications note
L. Choulant, History and bibliography of anatomic illustration, tr. and ed. by M. Frank, Chicago 1920, revd ed. 1945, pp. 250-253
K. B. Roberts and J. D. W. Tomlinson, The fabric of the body. European traditions of anatomical illustration, Oxford 1992, pp. 309-313; 412-415
F. Beekman, "Bidloo and Cowper, anatomists," Annals of Medical History, n.s., 7, 1935, pp. 113-129
P. Dumaître, La curieuse destinée des planches anatomiques de Gérard de Lairesse, Amsterdam 1982
Reference
Wellcome Library no. 28299i
Lettering note
Manuscript notations in brown ink, recto and verso
Bears plate number: T. 93
Reproduction note
The plate originally appeared in Govard Bidloo's Anatomia humani corporis (Amsterdam 1685), one of one hundred and five plates after drawings by G. de Lairesse which survive in the collection of the Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de Médecine in Paris. Bidloo's Anatomia appeared in a Dutch translation in 1690 after which Bidloo's publishers sold the remaining pulls of the plates to the Oxford publishers (Smith and Walford) of William Cowper's Anatomy of humane bodies (Oxford 1698), in which Bidloo's plates plus an appendix of nine new plates appear. Cowper added a new text and extra lettering, by his reckoning "above 700 references", to the plates. This new lettering was applied in red ink. Cowper's Anatomy of humane bodies was successful enough to appear in two further editions: one in English (Leiden 1737) and another in Latin (Leiden 1739). In these editions Cowper's added letters are in black ink
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- French
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