The anatomy of the ear. Engraving, 1686.

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

1 print : engraving ; image 14.5 x 8.4 cm

Bears plate number: Tab. XXI; page number

Wellcome Collection 29983i

The twenty-first 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 of plate twenty-one are described as after those of Du Verney, who published: Traité de l'organe de l'ouie, contenant la structure, les usages et les maladies (Paris 1683)