Foetus in the womb
Date
1758
Creator
Thomas Burgess (British) , Engraver
After
Jan van Rymsdyk (1700 - 1789, Dutch) , Artist
Object type
Library reference
46137
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (page): 500mm
width (page): 305mm
width (page): 305mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Anatomical study of the human uterus in the ninth month of pregnancy. The woman's body is facing forward, tilted slightly to the right [as viewed] and dissected, with the outer will pinned back, exposing the foetus within. Above, various abdominal organs are visible.
Plate 4 from Charles Nicholas Jenty’s The Demonstrations of a Pregnant Uterus of a Woman at her Full Time in Six Tales, as large a Nature. Jenty printed and sold copies of this work from his house on Fetter-Lane.
Inscribed: Ionnes Van Riemsdyk a Natura Pinxit Londini 1757 Tho.s Burgess Sculp.’
Written in the preface to the work: ‘The Originals of the tables were taken from this Woman by Mr. Van Riemsdyk, and not done at random, or from fancy […] As for my part, I may venture to say, that nothing of this kind has, as yet, been published on this subject in such a State of Pregnancy, and deposited in the manner that these tables are’
Charles Nicholas Jenty (fl.1758) was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Plate 4 from Charles Nicholas Jenty’s The Demonstrations of a Pregnant Uterus of a Woman at her Full Time in Six Tales, as large a Nature. Jenty printed and sold copies of this work from his house on Fetter-Lane.
Inscribed: Ionnes Van Riemsdyk a Natura Pinxit Londini 1757 Tho.s Burgess Sculp.’
Written in the preface to the work: ‘The Originals of the tables were taken from this Woman by Mr. Van Riemsdyk, and not done at random, or from fancy […] As for my part, I may venture to say, that nothing of this kind has, as yet, been published on this subject in such a State of Pregnancy, and deposited in the manner that these tables are’
Charles Nicholas Jenty (fl.1758) was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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