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The venous systems of the liver, showing the branches of the vena porta (figure 1) and the vena cava (figure 2). Engraving, 1686.
- Blankaart, Steven, 1650-1702.
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- [1686]
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- 29547i
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Credit: The venous systems of the liver, showing the branches of the vena porta (figure 1) and the vena cava (figure 2). Engraving, 1686. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark
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[Amsterdam] : [J. ten Hoorn], [1686]
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1 print : engraving ; image 14.4 x 8.5 cm
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Bears plate number: Tab. VI
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Wellcome Library no. 29547i
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The sixth of fifty-one plates first published in Steven Blankaart's De nieuw hervormde anatomie ofte ontleding des menschen lichaams, Amsterdam 1686, with a Latin edition the following year. The plates are made up of uncredited reduced copies of previously published illustrations, several to a page. In the notes to this plate in James Drake's Anthropologia nova (London 1707, 2 vols), where the Blankaart plates were published in an appendix to the first volume, the two figures of plate 6 are credited to Theodor Kerckring
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