Muscleman, in a landscape, seen from the front. Photolithograph, 1940, after a woodcut, 1543.

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1940
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24363i
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Muscleman, in a landscape, seen from the front. Photolithograph, 1940, after a woodcut, 1543. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Bern : Dr A. Wander, 1940.

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1 print : photolithograph

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Lettering

Prima musculorum tabula The lettering that identifies the woodcut as the first muscle plate is a printing error which is corrected in the list of errata at the end of the book to read: Quarta mus<ulorum> tab<ula>

References note

J. B. de C. M. Saunders and C. D. O'Malley, The illustrations from the works of Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, Cleveland and New York, 1950, pp. 98-99, pl. 27
D. Rosand and M. Muraro, Titian and the Venetian Woodcut, exhibition catalogue, Washington 1976
H. Cushing, A bio-bibliography of Andreas Vesalius, 2nd ed., Hamden, Conn. and London 1962, pp. 75-88, no. VI. A.-1

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Wellcome Collection 24363i

Reproduction note

The original: is the fourth plate to the second book of the De humani corporis fabrica libri septem of Andreas Vesalius, published in Basel in 1543

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