Muscles of the face and neck. Engraving, 1686.
- Date:
- [1686]
- Reference:
- 31569i
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Figures 1-2 at the bottom of the plate are of the muscles of the face. Figures 3-5 show the muscles of the neck. Figure 7 on the right is of the ear, its muscles and the parotic gland below it. On the left are two illustrations of the salival duct (figs 6 and 8), injected with wax
Publication/Creation
[Amsterdam] : [J. ten Hoorn], [1686]
Physical description
1 print : engraving ; image 13.9 x 7.9 cm
Lettering
Bears plate number: Tab. XXXIX; page number
Reference
Wellcome Collection 31569i
Reproduction note
The thirty-ninth 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 are described as after those published by Bidloo
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