Johann Arnold Friederici. Line engraving by Jacob von Sandrart, ca. 1672.

  • Sandrart, Jakob von, 1630-1708.
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[167?-]
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652814i
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Top left, botanic garden, with legend "Ut horti vigor sic hominis" (As is the flourishing of a garden, so is the flourishing of a man). Top right, anatomy theatre, with legend "Post funera usus" (usefulness after [their] deaths). Lower left, etching of man half alive and half skeleton, with legend "Vivus morior" (While living I am dying). Lower centre, a burning candle, with legend "Aliis inserviendo ipse consumor" (In serving others I myself am consumed). Lower right, man as half écorché and half as a nerve-figure, with legend "Me intuens cogita mortalitatem" (Looking on me, think of mortality). Bottom, apparatus representing chemistry (left) and surgery (right)

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[167?-]

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1 print : line engraving ; platemark 30.1 x 19.3 cm

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Johann Arnold Friederici. phil. et med. d. anatom. chir. ac botan p. p. et hort. med. praefect. Jen. Nat. Altenburgi 1637. d. 24 Jun. Denat. Jenae 27 May Ao. 1672. Lector habes hic dimidium tantum Fridericum / Sed, dicis, toto totus in orbe viget: / Hic cur non pictus? mirari desine, lector. / Nulla bonum medicum picta tabella capit. J. Sandrart sculp.

References note

John Roger Paas, Hollstein's German engravings, etchings and woodcuts, 1400-1700, vol. 38, Jacob von Sandrart, Roosendaal 1994, no. 126
Not in: R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973

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Wellcome Collection 652814i

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