The skeletons of two foetuses, two and five months old, demonstrating the development of ossification. Engraving, 1686.
- Date:
- [1686]
- Reference:
- 32180i
- Pictures
About this work
Description
In these two foetal skeletons, cartilaginous areas are marked by darker areas of ink. Additional figures of bones are the sphenoid bone of the skull (figure 3), the second cervicle vertebra and the atlas of the spine (figures 6-7) and, at the upper left, the temporal bone of the skull (figure 4)
Publication/Creation
[Amsterdam] : [J. ten Hoorn], [1686]
Physical description
1 print : engraving ; image 14.4 x 8 cm
Lettering
Bears plate number: Tab. XLVII; page number
Reference
Wellcome Collection 32180i
Reproduction note
The forty-eighth 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 figures of this plate are described as after those published by Theodor Kerckring. For the same plate published in the 1687 Latin edition of Blankaart, see catalogue no. 32180
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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores