A walking écorché in right profile with his right arm detached and suspended behind him. Engraving by Philip Galle.

  • Galle, Philippe, 1537-1612.
Date:
1589
Reference:
26115i
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The truncation of the arm in anatomical illustration is a device used in lateral views in order to provide an unobscured view of the torso and hip area. Galle has chosen to display the arm separate from the body, suspended behind it. In this way, the print also gives the interior and exterior views of the muscles of the arm

Publication/Creation

[Antwerp] : [P. Galle]

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; image 23.3 x 15.9 cm

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Phls Galle fecit et excudit Bears number (lower right corner) : 5

References note

A. Dolders, Illustrated Bartsch, New York 1987, lvi, no. 207:1-13
F. W. H. Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts ca. 1450-1700, Amsterdam 1949-, vii, p. 83, nos 789-801
Manfred Sellink, "'As a guide to the highest learning': an Antwerp drawing book dated 1589", Simiolus, 1992, vol. 21: 40-56

Reference

Wellcome Collection 26115i

Notes

Fifth in a series of thirteen prints, comprised of skeletons, écorchés and nudes by Philip Galle. A similar treatment of the arm is seen in the eighth print of the series, a male nude in right profile

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