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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
Anthropographia et osteologia
1 print : engraving ; image 16.5 x 10.6 cm
Lettering
Encheiridium anatomicum et pathologicum adornatum a Ioanne Riolano filio cum figuris.
Lettering
Encheiridium anatomicum et pathologicum adornatum a Ioanne Riolano filio cum figuris.
An anatomical dissection by Realdus Colombus, attended by onlookers
Collotype after a woodcut, 1559.
1 print : collotype ; image 28.2 x 20 cm
Lettering
Realdi Columbi Cremonensis, in almo gymnasio Romano anatomici celeberrimi, De re anatomica libri xv. Venetiis. Ex typographis Nicolai Bevilacquae. MDLIX
1 print : collotype ; image 28.2 x 20 cm
Lettering
Realdi Columbi Cremonensis, in almo gymnasio Romano anatomici celeberrimi, De re anatomica libri xv. Venetiis. Ex typographis Nicolai Bevilacquae. MDLIX
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…
Doctors Cuchillo & Sangrado Prescribing for Britannia
1 print : 15 x 17 cm.
Technique:
lithograph, color
Technique:
lithograph, color
State Quacks Or The Desperate Condition Of The Wither'd Sisters
1 print : 41 x 27 cm.
Technique:
etching, color
Practical surgery illustrated and improved: being chirurgical observations with remarks, upon the most extraordinary cases, cures, and dissections, made at St. Thomas's Hospital, Southwark
294 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves, 14 pages : frontispiece (portrait), plate ; (8vo)
2 illustrations (frontispiece is Beckett's portrait, same he uses on another medical tract / second is an allegorical, personification of surgery with a table of…
2 illustrations (frontispiece is Beckett's portrait, same he uses on another medical tract / second is an allegorical, personification of surgery with a table of…
Le Docteur -Vous avez besoin de prendre l'air, je vous engage a offrir votre mediation aux puissances occidentales
1 print : 37 x 24 cm.
Technique:
lithograph
Technique:
lithograph
Three despairing women, one of whom looks disapprovingly at three quack medicine vendors concocting a mixture; representing Britain's economic depletion and distress at the hands of her politicians
In the background is a crowd of revelling quacks, some of them proclaiming they can cure Britannia's ills, perhaps referring to the Opposition
1 print : etching ; image 18.4 x 23.2 cm
State quacks - or the desperate condition of the wither'd…
1 print : etching ; image 18.4 x 23.2 cm
State quacks - or the desperate condition of the wither'd…