Musculorum Tabula Framed First Edition Lithograph

This Dutch Lithograph is full of history and intrigue.
Find out more about the facinsating history behind this print here:
JBC Vol 35, No. 1 2009

”Jan Wandelaar (1690–1759), artist, and Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1697–1770), chair of Anatomy and Surgery, formed a unique and highly successful artist-anatomist partnership at the University of Leiden.”
-JBC Vol 35, No. 1

”The copperplates in Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani prepared by Jan Wandelaar for Bernard Siegfried Albinus established new production standards in anatomical illustration in the 18th century. The most famous engraving in the atlas depicts a fourth-order muscle man standing in front of the first anatomically correct depiction of a living rhinoceros to arrive in Europe. Wandelaar and Albinus immediately proclaimed the image as a symbol of their book, and engravings of Clara, the rhinoceros, were in the shops in Leiden five years before the book was published in 1747. The engraving acted as an advertisement for both the book and Clara’s pending grand tour of Europe.”
-JBC Vol 35, No. 1

Circa 1981.
Limited to 3000 copies.
Reproduced directly from the original folio volume plate.
Height: 30.75 in.
Width: 20 in.
Depth: 1 in.