The stomach. Engraving, 1686, the third and fourth figures after G. de Lairesse, 1685.

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

1 print : engraving ; image 14.3 x 8.3 cm

Bears plate number: Tab. XXVI; page number

Wellcome Collection 30017i

The twenty-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 Willis and Bidloo. No explanation of the second figure of the stomach is given, as it considered to be "patch'd together from Dr Wilis, but so very ill compos'd, that no explication can afford any tolerable idea of what it pretends to represent wherefore it shall be passed by." The third and fourth figures are taken from Govard Bidloo's Anatomia humani corporis (Amsterdam 1685), pl. 35, figs 9-10 and 3, 7 respectively. The plates in Bidloo are engraved after drawings by G. de Lairesse