Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11888

    Examples of ordinary human height

    Date
    1818
    Creator
    Jan Lucas van der Beek (1763 - 1818, Dutch) , Engraver
    After
    Izaak van Haarstert (1753 - 1834, Dutch) , Painter
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 206mm
    width (print): 127mm
    Subject
    Description
    Three representations of ordinary or average human height. Figure 7. Valiant human form represented by King Saul. Figure 8. Ordinary human height shown by a sculpture bust. Figure 9. Small human figure based upon the supposed height of King David, while still a shepherd.

    Plate 3 from the monograph Natuur- en geschiedkundige Verhandeling over de Reuzen en Dwergen... (&) Aanmerkingen wegens sommige verscheidenheden in den mensch...by Wilhelmus Greve (J.C. Sepp & Zoon, Amsterdam, 1818).

    Inscribed above: ‘Pl.III’.

    Wilhelmus Greve (1762-1819) Dutch physician, practiced in Rotterdam, Noordwijk and Delft.
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