Figures practising the fine arts and drawing from a suspended skeleton and corpse. Engraving by C. Cort, 1578, after J. van der Straet.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1578.

1 print : engraving

Pictura fusoria staturia sculptura architectura typorum eneorium incisoria anatomia tyrones pictura Illmo et Exmo duo Iacoco Boncompagno arcis praefecto ingenioij ac industrie fautori artiu<m> nobiliu<m> praxim a lo Stradesi belga artificiose expressa Laure<n>ti Vaccarius D.D. Romae anno 15<78> On the reverse of the sheet in ink: Cornelius Cort, born in 1536 at Holn in Westfrieze... was one of the first, whose good style of engraving ... the improvement of that art: after having sev... number of prints in Holland from the works ... Dutch & Low Country painters, he travelled to improve himself, where he was equally laborious ... works of their greatest masters and died a... in 1578 the year this print was engraved.

J.C.J. Bierens de Haan, L'oeuvre gravé de Cornelis Cort, graveur hollandais, 1533-1578, The Hague 1948, pp. 199, 228

F.W.H. Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts ca. 1450-1700, V, (1951), p. 58, no. 218

G. Wolf-Heidegger and Anna Maria Cetto, Die anatomische Sektion in bildlicher Darstellung, Basel & New York 1967, nos 73-749

R.G. Parker, 'Academy of Fine Arts', Journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences, XXXVIII, 1983, p. 76

Peter Black (ed.), "My highest pleasures": William Hunter's art collection, London 2007, pp. 64, 164-165

Wellcome Collection 32737i