Muscles of the back and abdomen. Engraving, 1686, after Gérard de Lairesse, 1685.

[Amsterdam] : [J. ten Hoorn], [1686]

1 print : engraving ; image 13.9 x 8 cm

Lettering (trimmed) in brown ink at top right: "Bidloo" Bears plate number: Tab. XLI; page number

Wellcome Collection 31817i

The forty-first 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 those published by Bidloo. Each figure originally appeared as a folio plate to Govard Bidloo's Anatomia humani corporis (Amsterdam 1685). For a description of Bidloo's twenty-ninth plate, on which figure 3 of the present plate is base, see catalogue no. 27734