Musculorum Tabula IV, 1742

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series Title

Tabulae Sceleti et Musculorum Corporis Humani

Medium

engraving on laid paper with accompanying leaf of descriptive text from the later English edition

Dimensions

plate: 56.2 x 40.2 cm (22 1/8 x 15 13/16 in.)

sheet: 63.7 x 44.5 cm (25 1/16 x 17 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

2004.7.2

Artists / Makers

Jan Wandelaar (artist) Dutch, 1690 - 1759

Bernard Siegfried Albinus (author) Dutch

Image Use

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Inscription

upper left in plate: B. S. ALBINI; upper right in plate: MUSCULORUM TABULA IV.; lower left in plate: J. Wandelaar ad ipsa corpora hominum delineavit idemque incidit; lower right in plate: Prostat Leidae Batavorum...apud J&HVerbeek, Bibliop. 1742.

Provenance

(Ursus Rare Books, New York); purchased 2003 by NGA.

Associated Names

Ursus Books and Prints, Ltd.

Exhibition History

2004: Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005

Bibliography

2003: Ursus Rare Books. Rare Books, Catalogue 242. New York, 2003: no. 3.