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