Diseases of the Stomach (cancer)
Diseases of the Stomach (cancer) lithograph printed by Benard and Frey after Antoine Touissant de Chazal (French, 1793-1854). From Jean Cruveilhier, Anatomie pathologique du corps humain (Paris: J. B. Baillière, 1829-1842), vol. 2, part 27, pl. 1. Huntington Library, Art Museum and Gardens, San Marino, California, RB 632011. – By the nineteenth century, publishing technology […]
The Reward of Cruelty (The Four Stages of Cruelty)
The Reward of Cruelty (The Four Stages of Cruelty), etching and engraving by William Hogarth (English, 1697–1764),February 1, 1751, plate: 15 1/4 x 12 5/8 in. (38.8 x 32 cm)sheet: 15 3/4 x 13 1/16 in. (40 x 33.2 cm) Metropolitan Museum, New York, Gift of Sarah Lazarus, 1891, no. 91.1.139. – This scene, incorporating […]
John Banister Delivering an Anatomical Lecture on the Viscera
John Banister Delivering an Anatomical Lecture on the Viscera 1581, painting, 33.8 x 43.2 cm. University of Glasgow Library, Glasgow, GB 247 MS Hunter 364 (V.1.1), frontispieceUniversity of Glasgow Archives & Special Collections, MS Hunter 364. – The English surgeon and physician John Banister (1532/3–1599?) lectures on the viscera, placing his hand on the open abdomen […]
Abdominal Dissection
Abdominal Dissection woodcut after Jan Steven van Calcar (North Netherlandish, ca. 1515– ca. 1546). From Andreas Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (Basel: J. Oporinus, 1543), bk. 5, p. 360 [460], fig. 6. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 84-B27611 – Ribs have been broken and the skin peeled back to display the liver, stomach, […]
The Martyrdom of St Erasmus
The Martyrdom of St Erasmus about 1430–1440, by Master of Sir John Fastolf (French, active before about 1420 – about 1450). Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink, Leaf: 12.1 × 9.2 cm (4 3/4 × 3 5/8 in.) The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Ms. 5 (84.ML.723), fol. 38v – This scene of the martyrdom […]