Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.16173

    Bladder stone

    Date
    Early 18th century
    Creator
    Gerard Vandergucht (1696 - 1776, British) , Engraver
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p218r
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 378mm
    width (page): 326mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Medical studies of a human bladder stone. Two figures showing the same calculi from opposite sides. Inscribed ‘Ger.Vandergucht sculp.’.

    One of four versions of the print on varying grades of paper at this location. Pulls of the same print appear at RB/1/35/37/ff.215-217 [BP/35/ff.215-217]. Another version of the print appears in RB/1/41.
    Object history
    Not related to Robert Boyle, despite being within the Boyle Papers collection.

    Gerard Vandergucht illustrated works by William Cheselden, including The anatomy of the human body (1713, and editions into the 1720s).
    Related fellows
    William Cheselden (1688 - 1752, British) , Surgeon
    Associated place
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