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[Anatomy of the abdomen]
Is part of: De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres, p. 271.; See related catalog record: 2234047R
Extent:
1 print
Technique:
woodcut
Extent:
1 print
Technique:
woodcut
Cyclopædia: or, an Universal dictionary of arts and sciences
See in the 1741 cylcopaedia a line for "surgery" to see "chirurgery". Under "Chirurgery" it states that it is "popularly called Surgery, the third branch of medicine; consisting in operations performed by the hand, for the cure of wounds, and other…
La visite des médecins
1 print : 24 x 30 cm.
Provenance:
Purchase; 1967.
Technique:
etching
Provenance:
Purchase; 1967.
Technique:
etching
Surgery: surgical instruments for the amputation of limbs, including an amputation saw, bone nippers and cartilege forceps.
1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 32.5 x 21 cm
Chirurgie. Goussier del. Defehrt fecit
Plate to: D. Diderot and J. Le R. D'Alembert, Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des metiers, Paris 1762-1773, vol. IV, p.…
Chirurgie. Goussier del. Defehrt fecit
Plate to: D. Diderot and J. Le R. D'Alembert, Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des metiers, Paris 1762-1773, vol. IV, p.…
Chirurgie
1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 32.5 x 21 cm; Plate to: D. Diderot and J. Le R. D'Alembert, Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des metiers, Paris 1762-1773, vol. IV, p. 236; Chirurgie. Goussier del. Defehrt…
Upholstery: a roll of fabric (top), tools (below)
1 print : engraving ; image and border 31.9 x 41.4 cm
"Tapissier, façon du point glacis, et outils. ; Radel del. ; Benard fec."
"Tapissier, façon du point glacis, et outils. ; Radel del. ; Benard fec."
The martyrdom of Saint Agatha
1 print : engraving ; platemark 25.4 x 18.3 cm; Dedicated to Prudentia, the daughter of the painter Jan van der Straet (Stradanus), who was a nun in the convent of Saint Agatha in Florence; S. Agatha, virgo et martyr. Venerabili ac religiosae virgini…
A woman personifying anatomy looks searchingly into the light emanating from a corpse, but she is mortally threatened by the scythe of Time; representing anatomy's struggle with decay
1 print : line engraving ; platemark 46.4 x 27.4 cm
A husband and wife ask a quack doctor for advice about health: he suggests substituting himself for the husband in the wife's affections, and she agrees
Description
A story described in an epigram by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, Epigrammes, 1723, lib. I, epigram XI (from which the lettering on the present print was copied)
1 print : line engraving with etching ; image 31.8 x 25.3 cm
L'operateur…
Allegorical and historical scenes of medicine: including a dissection and a distillation laboratory, and Hygieia receiving the organic and mineral bounty of the earth employed in remedies
1 print : engraving ; image 28.4 x 16.1 cm
Lettering
Gregorii Horstii, senioris, tou makaritou opera medica Yehova [Hebrew] ; Prudentia et vigilantia. ; Vita brevis ars longa. ; Quod est superius est sicut inferius.
Lettering
Gregorii Horstii, senioris, tou makaritou opera medica Yehova [Hebrew] ; Prudentia et vigilantia. ; Vita brevis ars longa. ; Quod est superius est sicut inferius.