The uterus, after Swammerdam, De Graaf and Cheselden. Etching, 1743.

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[1743]
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37305i
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[London] : [T. Osborne and J. Roberts], [1743]

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1 print : etching ; 30 x 38.3 cm

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Bears plate no. : XVII

References note

K.B. Roberts and J.D.W. Tomlinson, The fabric of the body. European traditions of anatomical illustration, Oxford 1992, pp. 422-423
Ludwig Choulant, History and bibliography of anatomic illustration, tr. and ed. Mortimer Frank, Chicago 1920, revd ed. New York 1945, p. 261
H. D. Jocelyn and B. P. Setchell, Regnier de Graaf on the human reproductive organs, Journal of reproduction and fertility, supplement no. 17, Oxford 1972

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Wellcome Collection 37305i

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Figure 2, at the lower left, is after the ninth plate to Renier de Graaf's De mulierum organis generationi inservientibus tractatus novus, Leiden 1672, illustrated with engravings after De Graaf's drawings. Figure 3, at the lower right, is from plate XXXII of William Cheselden's Anatomy of the human body, London 1740, with etchings by Gerard Vandergucht

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