Muscles of the lower leg and foot. Engraving, 1686, after Gérard de Lairesse, 1685.

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

1 print : engraving ; image 13.9 x 8 cm

Bears plate number: Tab. XLIV; page number

Wellcome Collection 31820i

The forty-fourth 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 seven figures are described as after those by Bidloo. They originally appeared as folio-sized illustrations to Govard Bidloo's Anatomia corporis humani (Amsterdam 1685), plate nos 80-86. The numeration of Blankaart's figures reflects the original order the Bidloo plates which they copy. For a description of the individual plates, see catalogue nos 28273; 28274; 28287; 28291; 28292; 28295; 28297. The Bidloo engravings are afterdrawings by Gérard de Lairesse