The arteries of the head after Haller; the eye, after Ruysch, Cowper and Bidloo. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt, 1762.

[Paris] : [Briasson], [1762]

1 print : engraving ; platemark 35.2 x 22.2 cm

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

K.B. Roberts and J.D.W. Tomlinson, The fabric of the body. European traditions of anatomical illustration, Oxford 1992, pp. 347-352

Ludwig Choulant, History and bibliography of anatomic illustration, tr. and ed. by Mortimer Frank, Chicago 1920, revd ed. New York 1945, pp. 289-290

Wellcome Collection 35483i

The head at the top of the plate is the reverse of one that 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