Object types
print (scope note | all objects)
book-illustration (scope note | all objects)
Materials
paper (all objects)
Techniques
engraving (scope note | all objects)
Production person
After Jan Stephan van Calcar (biographical details | all objects)
Print made by Thomas Gemini (biographical details | all objects)
Date
1545
Schools /Styles
British (all objects)
Description
Plate 3 of Thomas Gemini's 'Compendiosa totius anatomie delineatio, aere exarata' (London, 1st ed. 1545), being the 'secunda ossium tabula' with a skeleton leaning on a tomb examining a skull.
Engraving
Inscriptions
Inscription Content: Lettered with plate description on left
Dimensions
Height: 335 millimetres
Width: 173 millimetres
Curator's comments
Gemini's book consisted of titleplate and 48 plates copied from those in the 1543 Basle edition of Vesalius (in which the woodcuts are traditionally ascribed to Jan van Calcar). It went through five editions between 1545 and 1559, with varying printers (for the letterpress) and dedicatees. It is not possible to determine which edition this impression was used in.
Lit.: K.B. Roberts and J.D.W. Tomlinson, 'The Fabric of the Body', Oxford, 1992, pp.146-47, cat. no. 29.
Subject
anatomy (all objects)
Associated titles
Associated Title Compendiosa totius anatomie delineatio
Associated names
Illustration of Andreas Vesalius (biographical details | all objects)
Acquisition date
1982
Acquisition name
Purchased from Robert Douwma (biographical details | all objects)
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