An architectural loggia of Corinthian columns and pilasters with Adam and Eve. Engraving by P. Huys after L. van Noort, 1568.

1 print : engraving ; platemark 25.3 x 16.3 cm

Dominus mihi adiutor ; labore et constantia.

H. Cushing, A bio-bibliography of Andreas Vesalius, 2nd ed., Hamden, Conn. and London 1962, pp. 145-148; 151-152

J. B. de C. M. Saunders and C. D. O'Malley, The illustrations from the works of Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, Cleveland and New York 1950, pp. 136-137, pl. 45

Max Rooses, Catalogue of the Plantin-Moretus Museum, 4th English ed. completed by M. Sabbe, Antwerp 1924, p. 134, no. 98 and n. 1

L. Voet, The golden compasses, Amsterdam 1969-1972, 2 vols, ii, passim

A. Hahn and P. Dumaitre, Histoire de la médecine et du livre médical, Paris 1962, p. 137, pl. 80

Wellcome Collection 27075i

This plate is probably a modern strike from the original copper engraved plate used for the 1568 Anatomie, published by the Plantin press in Antwerp, a Dutch translation of the Vivae imagines partium corporis humani published by the same press in 1566. For the Dutch edition the title and the printer's address in the cartouche below were excised. This altered copperplate survives in the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp. A payment of fl. 3-10 was made to the artist Lambert van Noort on 5 February 1566 for his design of the title page. This was engraved by Pieter Huys who received on the same day the sum of fl. 11, the same price paid for the rest of the plates in the book (Rooses 1924, pp. 134-135, n. 1). The difference in payment reflects the time-consuming nature of the work of engraving (Voet 1972, ii, pp. 224-225). The plates and their explanations for the 1566 Plantin edition were taken from Juan de Valverde's Anatomia del corpo humano (Rome and Venice 1559) and the text from Vesalius's Epitome (Basel 1543). Valverde's Anatomia, first published in Rome in Spanish in 1556 as Historia de la composicion del cuerpo humano, with plates engraved by Nicolo Beatrizet, was in turn based on the plates illustrating Andreas Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica, published in Basel in 1543