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Image number: RS.10263
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The Tibia
Date
1800
Creator
Faustino Anderloni (1766 - 1847, Italian) , Engraver
After
Faustino Anderloni (1766 - 1847, Italian)
Object type
Library reference
Tracts/X277/6
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 240mm
width (print): 184mm
width (print): 184mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Illustration of parts of the human Tibia, drawn and etched by Faustino Anderloni.
Fig. 1. A Tibia halved lengthways, the bone of an adult human
Fig. 2. A Tibia having been dissolved in acid into a ‘wool-type’ substance
Fig. 3. Showing the fibres at the apex of the bone
Fig. 4. A small piece of the parietal bone
Fig. 5. Cross-section of bone
Fig.6. A small fragment of bone
Fig. 7. Shin bone
Fig.8. Shin bone
Fig. 9. Shin bone
Plate 1 from Internal Build of the Bone by Anton Scarpa, FRS (Leipzig, Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1800). Inscribed: ‘Tab 1. Anderloni delin et Sculp.�
Fig. 1. A Tibia halved lengthways, the bone of an adult human
Fig. 2. A Tibia having been dissolved in acid into a ‘wool-type’ substance
Fig. 3. Showing the fibres at the apex of the bone
Fig. 4. A small piece of the parietal bone
Fig. 5. Cross-section of bone
Fig.6. A small fragment of bone
Fig. 7. Shin bone
Fig.8. Shin bone
Fig. 9. Shin bone
Plate 1 from Internal Build of the Bone by Anton Scarpa, FRS (Leipzig, Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1800). Inscribed: ‘Tab 1. Anderloni delin et Sculp.�
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