Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12540

    Foetus in the womb

    Date
    1774
    Creator
    Henry Bryer, Engraver
    After
    Jan van Rymsdyk (1700 - 1789, Dutch) , Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (plate): 460mm
    width (plate): 302mm
    height (page): 653mm
    width (page): 470mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Anatomy
    Content object
    human body
       > uterus
    Description
    Anatomical study of the human gravid uterus in the eighth month of pregnancy. The uterus is shown in anterior view and dissected with the front of the uterine wall removed showing the foetus in the womb.

    Plate 20 to Anatomia uteri humani gravidi, by William Hunter (Birmingham: Printed by John Baskerville. Sold in London by S. Baker and G. Leigh; T. Cadell; D. Wilson and G. Nicol; and J. Murray, 1774).

    Inscribed ‘J. V. Rymsdyk delint. H. Bryer sculpsit. TAB.XX. Idem denuo uterus, sed omnino apertus, ut foetum in situ naturali ostendat. Circa fundum quaquaversus substantia, tam placentae quam uteri, incisa conspicitur. Pub: Nov: 15: 1774, by Dr. Hunter.’

    William Hunter (1718-1783) was a British physician, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1767.
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