Human uterus
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. It is shown with the foetus and endometrium removed, exposing the umbilical arteries and veins beneath. Above, the interior surface of the diaphragm is pinned back and displayed.
Plate 5 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 5 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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