2 color anatomical plates combined to create a pregnant woman with the opened uterus. Extracted from: Anatomie Générale des Viscères en Situation, de Grandeur et Couleur Naturelle, avec l'Angéologie et la Néurologie de Chaque Partie du Corps Humain

Book Description

Paris:: n. p.. 1752. hardcover. 2. 251 x 191; 274 x 190 mm. 2 colored mezzotint anatomical drawings combined (as intended) to create a pregnant woman with the opened uterus (plate nos. III, & VIII; border extremities chipped (illustrations unaffected), minor creasing, minor tears (neatly & professionally repaired). Mounted on archival board. Very good. . First edition. Beautifully drawn & colored large anatomical mezzotint plates. Gautier-d'Agoty was an assistant of the master anatomist Jacob Cristoph Le Blon, and was the first man to print anatomical plates in color on an extensive scale. He improved on the technique of Le Blon by adding a fourth (black) plate, which lends a further dimension to the images. Though Choulant harshly considers his illustrations inferior to those of his contemporary Ladmiral, he concedes that "they will always retain their value in the history of art and especially in the history of anatomic illustrations." Choulant, p. 270. His "colored mezzotints are often of striking artistic power, but too grandiose and showy in their tendency for the ultimate purposes of anatomic illustration." Garrison, History of Medicine, p. 335. See also: Florian Rodari, Anatomie de la Couleur; Garrison and Morton 398.

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