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1 photomechanical reproduction
Technique:
halftone, color

taken from a book

A photomechanical reproduction of the painting (heliogravure) that is pasted with a text explaining the artwork as if for a show

anatomical fugitive sheet 291. Pasted in a copy of Henri de Mondeville Chirurgia, c. 1476
a woman, flapbook - flap is blank (seems to have faded), under side is her anatomy, there is a leaf that you can lift to see her sex - sex has worn down with…

Anatomical fugitive sheet 291. Title at the top of the sheet: 'The Anathomye of the inward parts of man...', London: T. Raymalde, c. 1540. Pasted in a copy of Henri de Mondeville Chirurgia, c. 1476. Ms. 564. Seated male figure with first layer raised…

lxxxii pages, 1 leaf, 903 pages : frontispiece (portrait), illustrations ; 27 cm

6th ed., thoroughly rev. and greatly improved
with illustrations - various pertinent tools and interesting portraits

View of a half naked woman on a table surrounded by physicians. Dr. Péan is in the foreground.
photogravure

photogravure based on Gervex 1887 salon painting of Pean

Manuscript X 188 in the National Library of Sweden dates to around 1425--35 and contains two works by John Arderne (active 1307--70), an abridged version of De arte phisicali et de cirurgia (Of the physical arts and surgery) and Fistula in ano. Also…

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…