Dissection of a pregnant uterus, showing the foetus at nine months, with its head facing upwards. Copperplate engraving by Mechel after I.V. Rymsdyk, 1774, reprinted 1851.

  • Rymsdyk, Jan van, active 1750-1788.
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[1851]
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579814i
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Hunter, William
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view Dissection of a pregnant uterus, showing the foetus at nine months, with its head facing upwards. Copperplate engraving by Mechel after I.V. Rymsdyk, 1774, reprinted 1851.

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Dissection of a pregnant uterus, showing the foetus at nine months, with its head facing upwards. Copperplate engraving by Mechel after I.V. Rymsdyk, 1774, reprinted 1851. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[London] : [Printed for the Sydenham society], [1851] (London : Day & Son)

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; sheet 50.2 x 34.9 cm

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I.V. Rymsdyk delint. ; Mechel sculpt. ; A tertio cadavere, non graviditatis mense ... vasa uteri cera erant repleta Bears numbers: Tab. XIII & Plate 13

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Wellcome Collection 579814i

Creator/production credits

The engraver "Mechel" may be the same as J. Mitchel (or Mitchell) whose name appears on the preceding plate (pl. XII). See John L. Thornton, Jan van Rymsdyk, Cambridge 1982, p. 32

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  • Tab XIII

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