The arteries of the head after Haller; the eye, after Ruysch; the tongue after Heister. Engraving by Prevost, 1762.

  • Rollinus, C. J., active 18th century.
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[1762]
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35484i
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[Paris] : [Briasson], [1762]

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1 print : engraving ; platemark 35.5 x 22.3 cm

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Anatomie. Prevost fecit. Bears plate no. : XI. XII.

References note

Ludwig Choulant, History and bibliography of anatomic illustration, tr. and ed. by Mortimer Frank, Chicago 1920, revd ed. New York 1945, pp. 289-290
K.B. Roberts and J.D.W. Tomlinson, The fabric of the body. European traditions of anatomical illustration, Oxford 1992, pp. 347-352

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Wellcome Collection 35484i

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The head at the top of the plate is the reverse of the one which originally appeared as an illustration to the third fascicle of Albrecht von Haller's Icones anatomicae (Göttingen 1743-1756), engraved by George Daniel Heumann (1691-1759) after a drawing by C. J. Rollinus, who is described on the plates as a doctor of medicine

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