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Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body
Author: Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (Dutch, 1697–1770)
Illustrated by: Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (Dutch, 1697–1770)
Illustrated by: Nicholas Blakey (Irish, active 1749–1758)
Engraved by: Gérard Jean-Baptiste Scotin II (French, born in 1698, worked in England from 1733)
Engraved by: Charles Grignion (English, 1717–1810)
Engraved by: Louis-Philippe Boitard I (French, worked in England, active 1734–1763)
Engraved by: Simon François Ravenet, l'aîné (French, 1706–1774)
Copied after: Jan Wandelaar (Dutch, 1690–1759)
Publisher: John and Paul Knapton
Illustrated by: Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (Dutch, 1697–1770)
Illustrated by: Nicholas Blakey (Irish, active 1749–1758)
Engraved by: Gérard Jean-Baptiste Scotin II (French, born in 1698, worked in England from 1733)
Engraved by: Charles Grignion (English, 1717–1810)
Engraved by: Louis-Philippe Boitard I (French, worked in England, active 1734–1763)
Engraved by: Simon François Ravenet, l'aîné (French, 1706–1774)
Copied after: Jan Wandelaar (Dutch, 1690–1759)
Publisher: John and Paul Knapton
1749
Place of Publication: London, England
Medium/Technique
Illustrated book with 40 [of 41] engravings
Dimensions
Overall: 64 x 46.3 x 3.5 cm (25 3/16 x 18 1/4 x 1 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Charlotte Z. and Arthur E. Vershbow
Accession Number1982.382
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsIllustrated books
London: H. Woodfall, for John and Paul Knapton, 1749
Catalogue Raisonné
Russell 6; Waller 338; Wellcome p. 26; see Choulant-Frank, pp. 276-83
Description(London: H. Woodfall for John and Paul Knapton, 1749) Large folio; 45 [of 46] leaves, plus 39 [of 40] plates; modern half gilt-stamped brown morocco, marbled paper boards
Anatomical illustrations of the human skeleton and musculature; decorative title vignette
First English translation of Albinus's work, first published in Leiden in 1747. A Latin edition also appeared in London in 1749. The plates in this edition are copies of those by Jan Wandelaar in the first ed. The title vignette is by Scotin after Blakey.
This copy is lacking pl. XVIII from the muscles and its related leaf of text .
Anatomical illustrations of the human skeleton and musculature; decorative title vignette
First English translation of Albinus's work, first published in Leiden in 1747. A Latin edition also appeared in London in 1749. The plates in this edition are copies of those by Jan Wandelaar in the first ed. The title vignette is by Scotin after Blakey.
This copy is lacking pl. XVIII from the muscles and its related leaf of text .
ProvenanceArthur and Charlotte Vershbow, by whom given to MFA, June 9, 1982.