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Detachable plaster model of human torso
Breast shown to be detached and a transparent film over the other side, indicating that most of these anatomical models had inserts but are now missing today
Anatomical dissection by Andreas Vesalius of a female cadaver, attended by a large crowd of onlookers
1 print : woodcut ; image 35.2 x 24.3 cm
A physician examining a bare breasted female patient, an older woman passes him a syringe, a bawdy couple are in the background
1 print : mezzotint ; platemark 34.6 x 29 cm
An anatomical dissection by Realdus Colombus, attended by onlookers
Collotype after a woodcut, 1559.
1 print : collotype ; image 28.2 x 20 cm
Lettering
Realdi Columbi Cremonensis, in almo gymnasio Romano anatomici celeberrimi, De re anatomica libri xv. Venetiis. Ex typographis Nicolai Bevilacquae. MDLIX
1 print : collotype ; image 28.2 x 20 cm
Lettering
Realdi Columbi Cremonensis, in almo gymnasio Romano anatomici celeberrimi, De re anatomica libri xv. Venetiis. Ex typographis Nicolai Bevilacquae. MDLIX
De mulierum organis generationi inservientibus tractatus novus. Demonstrans tam homines & animalia caetera omnia, quae vivipara dicuntur, haud minus quam ovipara ab ovo originem ducere ...
[24], 334, [16] p. (last blank) : add. engr. t.p., engr. front. (port.), ill., plates (some folded)
An allegorical figure wearing a large variety of surgical instruments including some on his head and hands
1 print : etching ; image 25.8 x 18.4 cm
The Surgeon at Work at the Rear During an Engagement
At a field medical station a physician treats the wounded brought back from the front lines; in the background, an ambulance races by, and in the distance smoke rises above the battlefield.
1 print : 40 x 29 cm.
Technique:
wood engraving
Three despairing women, one of whom looks disapprovingly at three quack medicine vendors concocting a mixture; representing Britain's economic depletion and distress at the hands of her politicians
In the background is a crowd of revelling quacks, some of them proclaiming they can cure Britannia's ills, perhaps referring to the Opposition
1 print : etching ; image 18.4 x 23.2 cm
State quacks - or the desperate condition of the wither'd…
1 print : etching ; image 18.4 x 23.2 cm
State quacks - or the desperate condition of the wither'd…
A seated female figure with a dissected abdomen. Photograph after a woodcut, ca. 1525-1530.
1 photograph ; image 29.2 x 16.2 cm
Lettering
Hec est tabula de matrice mulierum et impregnatione
References note
L. Crummer, "Early anatomical fugitive sheets," Annals of Medical History, 5, no. 3, 1923, p. 198, fig. 7
J. G. de Lint, "Fugitive…
Lettering
Hec est tabula de matrice mulierum et impregnatione
References note
L. Crummer, "Early anatomical fugitive sheets," Annals of Medical History, 5, no. 3, 1923, p. 198, fig. 7
J. G. de Lint, "Fugitive…