| Method | Copper engraving |
| Artist | Simon François Ravenet I after Jan Wandelaar |
| Published | Published by E. Cox and Son, St. Thomas Street, and No.9 Sutton Street, Southwark. 1827. |
| Dimensions | Image 380 x 540 mm, Plate 408 x 577 mm, Sheet 503 x 628 mm |
| Notes |
This plate comes from the Anatomical Tables of the Bones, Muscles, Blood Vessels, and Nerves of the Human Body. The original work, which bore the Latinate title of Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani, was published in 1747, and represented the apogee of the collaboration between an anatomist, Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, and the painter, Jan Wandalear. The work comprised forty anatomical prints, and was completed over the course of eight years. Given its fastidious methodology, scientific accuracy, and fanciful employment of pose and background, Albinus' anatomical atlas is one of the most significant physiological works ever published. Owing to this, John and Paul Knapton commissioned a series of engravers to reproduce the original works, before publishing the folio in London in 1749. E. Cox and Son reissued the plates in 1827, and they have gone on to become rare and valuable engravings in their own right. Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1697 - 1770) was a Dutch anatomist, physician and author. He was born in Germany, where his father, Bernhardus Albinus, was the professor of medicine at the university of Frankfurt on the Oder. When Bernhardus was transferred to the chair of medicine at Leiden university, his son Bernhard, at the age of twelve, began his studies under Herman Boerhaave and Nikolaus Bidloo. In 1721, Bernhard succeeded his father in the professorship of anatomy and surgery, and speedily became one of the most famous scientific lecturers in Europe. Though his contemporary fame was base upon his pedagogic excellence, Albinus' celebrity today rests with the Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani, which was published in Leiden and largely at his own expense. Jan Wandelaar (1690 - 1759) was a Dutch draughtsman and etcher who was mainly active in Amsterdam. He was believed to have been a pupil of Johannes Jacobsz Folkema, Gilliam van der Gouwen, and Gerard de Lairesse. Wandelaar produced engravings after Jacob Houbraken, as well for Carl Linnaeus' Hortus Cliffortianus and Bernhard Siegfried Albinus' Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani. Simon François Ravenet I (1706 - 1774) was a French engraver and publisher. He was born in Paris, where he studied engraving under Jacques-Philippe Le Bas. Ravenet began engraving Jean-Baptiste Massé's 'Grande Galerie de Versailles' in 1731, and was still labouring on the commission when in 1743, he was brought to London by William Hogarth to work on the 'Marriage à la Mode' series. He then remained in Britain for the rest of his career where he made additional prints for Hogarth such as 'The Good Samaritan,' and the 'Pool of Bethesda'. He was also employed by John Boydell, and engraved his 'Collection of Prints from the most Capital Paintings in England' between the years of 1763-72. Ravenet, together with F. Vivares, and V. M. Picot, was instrumental in the revival of engraving in England, and founded an important school for the form in London. Condition: Excellent impression with full margins. |
| Framing | unmounted |
| Price | £200.00 |
| Stock ID | 30113 |