Muscles of the head, neck and chest. Engraving, 1686.
- Date:
- [1686]
- Reference:
- 31571i
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The first two figures, at the bottom of the plate, show the muscles of the back of the head and neck. Figure 2, on the left, is a deeper dissection than figure 1. At the top right, figure 3 is a deep dissection of the neck from the front. Figure 4 at the top left is of the muscles of the chest. The large raised and pinned muscle lettered "i" is the pectoral
Publication/Creation
[Amsterdam] : [J. ten Hoorn], [1686]
Physical description
1 print : engraving ; image 13.8 x 8 cm
Lettering
Bears plate number: Tab. XL; page number
Reference
Wellcome Collection 31571i
Reproduction note
The fortieth 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 Bidloo
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