The muscles of the body seen from the front, with a deeper dissection of the left side, and illustrations of muscle fibres. Engraving, 1686.
- Date:
- [1686]
- Reference:
- 32152i
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About this work
Description
At the top right, below the plate number, is a single fibre of a muscle (figure 2) Below this are the fibres of the deltoid muscle (figure 5) Figure 6, at the lower right, shows the fibres of the biceps muscle of the arm and figure 7, at the top left, the fibres of the semimembranosus muscle of the leg
Publication/Creation
[Amsterdam] : [J. ten Hoorn], [1686]
Physical description
1 print : engraving ; image 14.4 x 8.4 cm
Lettering
Bears plate number: Tab. XLV; page number
Reference
Wellcome Collection 32152i
Reproduction note
The forty-fifth 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 Bartholin, Steno and Bourdon
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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores