The muscles of the human body, first layer, seen from the back, after Albinus. Engraving by Benard, late 18th century.

  • Wandelaar, Jan, 1690 or 1692-1759.
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[Paris]

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1 print : engraving, with etching ; platemark 35.2 x 22 cm

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Anatomie. ; Benard fecit. Bears plate no. : V

References note

Robert Beverly Hale and Terence Coyle, Albinus on anatomy, New York 1979, p. 35, p. 37

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Wellcome Collection 35349i

Reproduction note

The reverse of the second muscle plate to B. S. Albinus, Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani, Leiden 1747, drawn and engraved by Jan Wandelaar (1690-1759). A low horizon line and a clump of vegetation on the right replaces the elaborate background that fills the entire Wandelaar plate

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