Portrait of an old man in a description of a dissection of a 109-year-old man
Date
2 February 1723
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p2
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (page): 295mm
width (page): 185mm
width (page): 185mm
Subject
Description
Treatise about the dissection of a 109-year-old man, with a woodcut on p. 2 of an old man with a pistol, a sword and a skull in front of him. The printed portrait is glued to the page.
Transcription
Anatomia senis decrepiti annorum 109 facta
Tiguri d. 2 Febr. 1723.
Per illustri societati regiae londinensi humillione oblata à Joh. Jacobo Scheuzero Tigurino Med. Dotc. Mathecos Prof. & Regiae Societatis socio.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Tiguri d. 2 Febr. 1723.
Per illustri societati regiae londinensi humillione oblata à Joh. Jacobo Scheuzero Tigurino Med. Dotc. Mathecos Prof. & Regiae Societatis socio.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
Description (without image) printed in Joh. Jacobo Scheuchzero, 'Anatomia senis decrepiti annorum 109', Phil. Trans., vol. 32, no. 376 (1723), pp. 313-16.
Related fellows
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672 - 1733, Swiss) , Physician
Associated place