Dissection of a penis
Date
1721
Creator
J. C. Le Blon (1667 - 1741, German) , Printmaker
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p114
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (paper): 240mm
width (paper): 320mm
width (paper): 320mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Colour mezzotint with etching, on a blue sheet of wove paper.
This image comes with a legend in French and Latin, and is an illustration from William Cockburn's publication, The symptoms, nature, cause, and cure of a gonorrhoea (London, 1713). This treatise was first published anonymously, but was printed several more times in the eighteenth century with Cockburn's name.
The image was made by the German printmaker Jakob Christoph Le Blon, who was the inventor of three- and four-colour printing, techniques that were of great interest to the Fellows of the Royal Society. The image is known by the title Préparation anatomique des parties de l'homme servant à la generation: faite sur les decouvertes les plus modernes, and was given to the Royal Society on 6 May 1731.
This image comes with a legend in French and Latin, and is an illustration from William Cockburn's publication, The symptoms, nature, cause, and cure of a gonorrhoea (London, 1713). This treatise was first published anonymously, but was printed several more times in the eighteenth century with Cockburn's name.
The image was made by the German printmaker Jakob Christoph Le Blon, who was the inventor of three- and four-colour printing, techniques that were of great interest to the Fellows of the Royal Society. The image is known by the title Préparation anatomique des parties de l'homme servant à la generation: faite sur les decouvertes les plus modernes, and was given to the Royal Society on 6 May 1731.
Transcription
Préparation anatomique des parties de l'homme servant à la generation: faite sur les decouvertes les plus modernes. Printed on blue paper, which prints the legends in French and English, with colour intaglio insert.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
For interest in Le Blon's technique, see Cromwell Mortimer, ‘An account of Christopher Le Bon’s principles of printing, in imitation of painting, and of weaving tapestry, in the same manner as brocades’, Phil. Trans., vol. 37, no. 419 (1731), pp. 101-07.
For the donation, see DM/5/89.
For the donation, see DM/5/89.
Related fellows
William Cockburn (1669 - 1739, British) , Physician
Associated place