print;
title-page
- Museum number
- 1895,1031.994
- Description
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An anatomical demonstration in a temporarily-erected wooden theatre set inside a circular, columned building, with Vesalius standing to the left of a table at centre, dissecting the abdomen of a woman amidst a crowd of onlookers; a human skeleton standing behind the dissected body, a monkey in lower left and a dog and a ram in lower right; a cartouche with title hanging from the ceiling at top centre; title-page to the revised edition of Andreas Vesalius "De humani corporis fabrica libri septem" (Basel: 1555). c.1555
Woodcut
- Production date
- 1555 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 376 millimetres
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Width: 245 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For an impression of the title-page of the first edition of 1543, see also 1895,1031.993.
Lit.: K.B. Roberts and J.D.W. Tomlinson, 'The Fabric of the Body', Oxford, 1992, pp.131-140, ill.5.3; A. Carlino, 'Books of the Body. Anatomical Ritual and Renaissance Learning', Chicago and London, 1999, pp.39-53; Susan Dackerman et al., 'Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe', Yale UP, 2011, cat.no.30..
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: De Humani Corporis Fabrica libri septem (Basel, 1555)
- Acquisition date
- 1895
- Acquisition notes
- Inscribed in lower right corner, in pen and ink: "Caroli Bernard / archichirurg Regÿ".
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1895,1031.994
