A foetus and placenta with umbilical cord. Engraving, 1686, the second, third, fifth and sixth figures after G. de Lairesse, 1685.

[Amsterdam] : [J. ten Hoorn], [1686]

1 print : engraving ; image 14.4 x 7.9 cm

Lettering in brown ink at top right: "Bidloo" Bears plate number: Tab. XXXVI; page number

Wellcome Collection 31559i

The thirty-sixth 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 Reinier de Graaf, Hoboken and Bidloo. Govard Bidloo published his Anatomia corporis humani in Amsterdam 1685, with plates engraved after drawings by G. de Lairesse. In Blankaart's plate 36, fig. 2 is after Bidloo's plate 58; fig. 3 is after Bidloo's pl. 59; fig. 5 is after Bidloo's plate 60, fig. 4; fig. 6 is after Bidloo plate 61, fig. 6