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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
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.
The Dutch anatomist Steven Blankaart (1650-1704) performing a dissection in an anatomy theatre, with seven observers
1 print : engraving ; image 16.3 x 9.3 cm
Lettering
S. Blancardi. Anatomia reformata
Lettering
S. Blancardi. Anatomia reformata
An elderly anatomist contemplates the heart that he has excised from the corpse of a beautiful, young woman
lettering: L'anatomie du coeur ; E. Simonet Rom
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)
Opera omnia
11 unnumbered leaves, 537 pages, 37 leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, frontispiece (portrait) ; (8vo)
Contents
De virorum organis generationi inservientibus -- Epistola ad virum clarissimum Lacam Schacht ... de partibus genitalibus…
Contents
De virorum organis generationi inservientibus -- Epistola ad virum clarissimum Lacam Schacht ... de partibus genitalibus…
An anatomical dissection taking place in a hall decorated with musclemen and human and animal skeletons in niches
1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 39.9 x 21.1 cm
lettering: Bibliotheca anatomica Lettering on obelisks, left and right: Multum egerūt qui a(n)te nos fuerunt, sed non peregerūt, multumque restabit, nec ulli nato per mille secula praecludetur…
lettering: Bibliotheca anatomica Lettering on obelisks, left and right: Multum egerūt qui a(n)te nos fuerunt, sed non peregerūt, multumque restabit, nec ulli nato per mille secula praecludetur…
The anatomist
1 print : 33 x 24 cm.
Technique:
etching, color
Technique:
etching, color
The dissection of a young, beautiful woman directed by J. Ch. G. Lucae (1814-1885) in order to determine the ideal female proportions
Chalk drawing by J. H. Hasselhorst, 1864.
1 drawing : black chalk ; image 33.6 x 41.6 cm
1 drawing : black chalk ; image 33.6 x 41.6 cm
