Two male nudes in the same pose, with a raised right arm, seen from the front and the back. Engraving.

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32353i
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Description

Lettering has been applied to the two figures. A key identifying the parts of the body, similar to that seen in catalogue no. 32334i, would have appeared on the facing page of a book in which this plate was published

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; platemark ca. 29.7 x 19

Lettering

Lettering on the verso: "Demonstration des os anterieurs du squelete" Number applied in brown ink on recto : "2" ; on verso

Notes

Provenance: According to inscription on verso, presented by the etstate of Dr [Paul] Gachet, Paris, October 1928

Reference

Wellcome Collection 32353i

Reproduction note

The pose of the figures is based on that of one of the two figures illustrating the veins first published in Juan de Valverde's Historia del la composicion del cuerpo humano, Rome 1556 (see Wellcome catalogue no. 27193i)

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