Prints of the Brain and the Heart

Prints of the Brain and the Heart

RP-P-1961-521

collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Around 1735 Jan l’Admiral printed several remarkable anatomical prints in colour, among others on commission for the celebrated physician Frederik Ruysch. For his illustrations of the cerebral membrane (the skull of an unborn child) and a human heart he experimented with ever different colours, and made various versions of them. The objective was to provide medical practitioners with the most precise and realistic images possible.

Hollstein Dutch 4

print maker: Jan l' Admiral, Amsterdam

1733 - 1738

mezzotint en ets in rood, gedrukt van één plaat (B)

height 127 mm x width 170 mm

Jan L'Admiral gebruikte voor de groep mezzotinten met het onderwerp 'Anatomische studie van een menselijke schedel' vier verschillende platen: A, B, C en D. Proefdruk voor illustratie in: Ruysch, Frederik. Icon duræ matris in concavâ superficie visæ, ex capite fœtus humani, Amsterdam: Jacob Graal en Hendrik de Leth, 1738.

Public domain

Hollstein Dutch 4

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