Female genito-urinary system. Engraving, 1686.
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- [1686]
- Reference:
- 31554i
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The first figure, at the top left, shows the bladder and uterus. To the right, figure 3, is the uterus dissected to reveal the course of the fallopian tube, labelled "D". Figure 4, at the centre, is a human ovary. To the left is that of a ewe, with the egg, labelled "C", removed. Figure 2 at the bottom of the plate shows the vagina opened lengthwise and seen from the back. At the lower left, figures 7-8 are the ovary of a rabbit on the second and third day after coitus
Publication/Creation
[Amsterdam] : [J. ten Hoorn], [1686]
Physical description
1 print : engraving ; image 14 x 8.1 cm
Lettering
Bears plate number: Tab. XXXV; page number: pag. 474
Reference
Wellcome Collection 31554i
Reproduction note
The thirty-fifth of fifty-one plates first published in Steven Blankaart's De nieuw hervormde anatomie ofte ontleding des menschen lichaams, Amsterdam 1686, with a Latin edition the following year. The plates are made up of uncredited reduced copies of previously published illustrations, several to a page. In the notes to this plate in James Drake's Anthropologia nova (London 1707, 2 vols), where the Blankaart plates were published in an appendix to the first volume, the figures are described as after Reinier de Graaf. They are taken from De Graaf's De mulierum organis generationi inservientibus tractatus novus, published in Leiden in 1672 (V; VII; IX; X; XIV, fig. 4; XVI), a sequel to his book on male generative organs published in 1668 (see this catalogue no. 31504i)
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