print
- Museum number
- 1928,0310.101
- Title
- Object: Préparation Anatomique des parties de l'homme (...)
- Description
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Dissected human testicles and penis showing the symptoms of an infection with gonorrhoea pinned to a board; pasted on a blue sheet of wove paper with letterpress; illustration to 'Apparatus Anatomicus G. Cockburni Libello' (the Symptoms, Nature and Cure of Gonorrhoea). 1721-30
Colour mezzotint with etching.
- Production date
- 1719
- Dimensions
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Height: 426 millimetres (sheet size)
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Height: 202 millimetres
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Width: 296 millimetres (sheet size)
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Width: 271 millimetres (size of mezzotint)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See also: F. Rodari (ed): 'Anatomie de la Couleur; L'invention de l'estampe en couleurs', Bibliothèque nationale de France/ Musée Olympique Lausanne, 1996, cat.51. Another impression of this print is in the British Library C.70.i.9.(2.)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2017-2018 24 Nov-11 Jan, London, BM, G90a, Sloane & Medicine
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Préparation anatomique des parties de l’homme servant à la génération, etc. (Apparatus anatomicus G. Cockburni libello super Gonorrhoeâ virulentâ inserviens)
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Acquisition notes
- Transferred from the Dept of Manuscripts in 1928, where it was extracted from Sloane Ms.5259, no.13.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1928,0310.101
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Sl,5259.13